Assay of androsterone at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$191.70
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.
$328.25
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.
$22.23 with Partnership Health Plan vs $71.54 with Health Net — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.23 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.03 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $35.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $40.88 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.80 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $51.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $51.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.29 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $53.29 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.29 | ↓ -72% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.14 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65.70 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $67.89 | ↓ -65% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $71.54 | ↓ -63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $71.54 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $71.54 | ↓ -63% |
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Assay of androsterone at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $255.38 | $22.23 – $321.69 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $166.43 | $22.23 – $321.69 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $25.04 – $197.57 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $25.55 – $249.68 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $25.55 – $283.14 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $25.55 – $112.95 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | not published | $283.80 – $283.80 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $25.04 – $212.42 |