Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$515.14
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.
$1,198.00
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.
$299.50 with DHR vs $6,343.00 with United — 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 | $299.50 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $299.50 | ↓ -42% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $455.98 | ↓ -11% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $566.59 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $599.00 | ↑ +16% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $611.03 | ↑ +19% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $694.35 | ↑ +35% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $694.35 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $694.35 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $694.84 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $778.70 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $838.60 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $886.52 | ↑ +72% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $888.77 | ↑ +73% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $958.40 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,198.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $2,417.00 | ↑ +369% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $2,936.00 | ↑ +470% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,375.00 | ↑ +555% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,243.00 | ↑ +1112% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +1131% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +1131% |
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Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $800.67 | $449.01 – $1,297.14 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $811.86 | $87.44 – $1,031.11 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,716.15 | $593.00 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,691.03 | $555.48 – $3,871.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,328.01 | $515.85 – $1,954.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,548.80 | $555.48 – $3,717.14 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $818.80 | $555.48 – $1,765.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $809.97 | $555.48 – $1,064.92 |