Bone survey-lead poisoning at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$232.44
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.
$398.00
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.
$80.68 with BCBS - Anthem vs $390.04 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $80.68 | ↓ -65% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $111.71 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $195.02 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $222.88 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $238.80 | ↑ +3% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $242.61 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $278.60 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $278.60 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $278.60 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $290.54 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $290.54 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $290.54 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $358.20 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $370.14 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $390.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $390.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $390.04 | ↑ +68% |
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Bone survey-lead poisoning at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $648.24 | $85.36 – $1,154.40 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $266.99 | $21.27 – $394.79 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,387.71 | $140.89 – $233.73 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $886.45 | $56.42 – $328.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $142.47 | $56.42 – $570.84 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $140.93 | $56.42 – $570.84 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,422.90 | $134.46 – $334.96 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $548.61 | $56.42 – $342.76 |