Culture aerobic additional method definitive id each at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$96.95
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.
$166.00
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.
$6.65 with Partnership Health Plan vs $22.54 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 | $6.65 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.08 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.12 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $11.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $12.88 | ↓ -87% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.17 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.10 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.79 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.70 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.39 | ↓ -78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.54 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $22.54 | ↓ -77% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $22.54 | ↓ -77% |
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Culture aerobic additional method definitive id each at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $115.20 | $2.42 – $21.43 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $43.52 | $1.62 – $24.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $308.04 | $7.92 – $65.89 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $119.84 | $6.46 – $20.81 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $57.28 | $6.65 – $19.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $63.12 | $5.38 – $24.47 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $126.14 | $4.47 – $23.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $124.78 | $4.47 – $23.21 |