Carotene at Community Hospital San Bernardino
1805 Medical Center Dr, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1235290818
$5.24
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.
$13.38
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.
$2.68 with Blue Shield CA vs $58.80 with Care 1st — 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2.68 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.55 | ↓ -13% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $7.36 | ↑ +40% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $7.77 | ↑ +48% |
| Magellan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.03 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8.30 | ↑ +58% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Redlands | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.22 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.37 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.77 | ↑ +86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $10.04 | ↑ +92% |
| Ballards Rehab | Commercial|All Plans | $10.14 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10.71 | ↑ +104% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.06 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.06 | ↑ +111% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.76 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.18 | ↑ +132% |
| SBMG | Commercial|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +155% |
| Epic Health | Commercial|All Plans | $15.67 | ↑ +199% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.46 | ↑ +214% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.46 | ↑ +214% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.25 | ↑ +229% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $17.98 | ↑ +243% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.43 | ↑ +404% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $26.43 | ↑ +404% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $58.80 | ↑ +1022% |
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Carotene at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $4.46 | $3.48 – $58.80 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.02 | $1.84 – $15.52 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $33.89 | $9.04 – $75.35 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5.73 | $6.69 – $23.74 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $8.92 | $7.25 – $13.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5.25 | $3.62 – $27.91 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4.97 | $6.00 – $26.48 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $4.92 | $6.00 – $26.48 |