Microbe susceptible mlc at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital
2550 Sister Mary Columba Dr, Red Bluff, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1083732853
$27.69
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.
$47.41
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.
$11.28 with Partnership Health Plan vs $46.47 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 | $11.28 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.59 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $23.24 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $26.55 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.45 | ↑ +3% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.04 | ↑ +16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $33.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $33.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.61 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $34.61 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.61 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $40.17 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.67 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $44.10 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $46.47 | ↑ +68% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $46.47 | ↑ +68% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $46.47 | ↑ +68% |
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Microbe susceptible mlc at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $20.30 | $16.18 – $103.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.59 | $12.81 – $121.67 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $36.89 | $11.28 – $46.47 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $21.34 | $16.18 – $359.69 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $20.39 | $11.86 – $80.90 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $18.54 | $9.49 – $115.22 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $15.46 | $9.49 – $89.58 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $24.04 | $11.28 – $46.47 |