Change cystostomy tube simple at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$286.75
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.
$491.00
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.
$120.65 with BCBS - Anthem vs $481.18 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $120.65 | ↓ -58% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $210.67 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $245.50 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $274.96 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $304.42 | ↑ +6% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $309.02 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $343.70 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $343.70 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $343.70 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $358.43 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $358.43 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $358.43 | ↑ +25% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $362.80 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $441.90 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $456.63 | ↑ +59% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $481.18 | ↑ +68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $481.18 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $481.18 | ↑ +68% |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $212.87 | $83.03 – $539.32 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $207.76 | $48.64 – $386.06 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,014.39 | $336.70 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $381.35 | $67.50 – $873.18 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $99.90 | $36.74 – $139.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $339.08 | $67.50 – $824.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $324.26 | $67.50 – $503.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $320.76 | $67.50 – $496.91 |