Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at St. Mary Medical Center
1050 Linden Ave, Long Beach, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1194840421
$148.35
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.
$345.00
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.
$17.00 with BCBS - Anthem 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -89% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.00 | ↓ -87% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.00 | ↓ -87% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.11 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $28.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $28.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.55 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $31.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $31.66 | ↓ -79% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $86.25 | ↓ -42% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $86.25 | ↓ -42% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $105.55 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $105.55 | ↓ -29% |
| SMIPA | Medicare|All Plans | $128.12 | ↓ -14% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Health Net | Medicare|HMO | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $167.06 | ↑ +13% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $180.16 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $200.10 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $200.10 | ↑ +35% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $204.72 | ↑ +38% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $204.72 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Trauma | $204.72 | ↑ +38% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $223.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $224.25 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $241.50 | ↑ +63% |
| SevenCorners | Medicare|All Plans | $262.05 | ↑ +77% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $276.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $300.15 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $345.00 | ↑ +133% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $400.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $522.00 | ↑ +252% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $570.00 | ↑ +284% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $570.00 | ↑ +284% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,243.00 | ↑ +4108% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,343.00 | ↑ +4176% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,343.00 | ↑ +4176% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $217.69 | $29.24 – $497.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $207.16 | $21.11 – $746.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $235.77 | $21.11 – $232.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $183.85 | $21.11 – $1,149.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $241.53 | $21.11 – $572.88 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $238.92 | $21.11 – $12,607.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $602.41 | $105.50 – $844.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $409.84 | $17.00 – $1,143.08 |