Assay of tyrosine at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$24.03
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.
$41.14
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.
$9.25 with Partnership Health Plan vs $40.32 with Coventry — 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 | $9.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.30 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $20.16 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $23.04 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.69 | ↑ +3% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.27 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $28.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $28.80 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.04 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.04 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30.04 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.03 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $38.27 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $40.32 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $40.32 | ↑ +68% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $40.32 | ↑ +68% |
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Assay of tyrosine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $31.30 | $2.13 – $48.50 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $17.61 | $5.15 – $27.39 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $27.40 | $10.63 – $40.32 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $16.13 | $2.79 – $32.20 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $32.01 | $9.25 – $40.32 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $11.48 | $5.76 – $41.14 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $17.70 | $10.29 – $66.35 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $16.09 | $8.23 – $66.35 |