Culture quantitative aerobic other source at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$87.02
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.
$149.00
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.
$5.22 with Partnership Health Plan vs $41.16 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 | $5.22 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -89% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.34 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $20.58 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $23.52 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.20 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $29.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $29.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.40 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.66 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30.66 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.66 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $39.06 | ↓ -55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.16 | ↓ -53% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $41.16 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $41.16 | ↓ -53% |
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Culture quantitative aerobic other source at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $34.04 | $1.98 – $59.17 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $131.49 | $5.22 – $34.30 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $105.47 | $5.22 – $378.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $446.90 | $5.22 – $57.82 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $82.45 | $4.70 – $134.30 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $176.75 | $9.89 – $55.22 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $145.77 | $5.22 – $441.56 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $91.26 | $5.22 – $47.04 |