Screening prostate cancer PSA at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$125.13
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$291.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$11.75 with DHR vs $47.00 with BCBS - Anthem — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.75 | ↓ -91% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $17.86 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.31 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.03 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.17 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.17 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.17 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.17 | ↓ -81% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $24.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $24.14 | ↓ -81% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $24.14 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $27.26 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $30.55 | ↓ -76% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $30.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $32.90 | ↓ -74% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $37.60 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.89 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $43.06 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.06 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $47.00 | ↓ -62% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Screening prostate cancer PSA at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $212.29 | $5.59 – $49.75 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $130.54 | $6.06 – $11.18 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $194.44 | $3.02 – $58.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $314.98 | $19.31 – $55.48 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $311.59 | $19.31 – $55.48 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $525.32 | $5.20 – $41.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $347.51 | $16.41 – $716.68 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $161.83 | $5.82 – $11.18 |