Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at Community Hospital San Bernardino
1805 Medical Center Dr, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1235290818
$38.76
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.
$99.11
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.
$19.83 with Blue Shield CA vs $176.43 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $19.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $34.44 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.02 | ↓ -7% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.22 | ↑ +24% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.52 | ↑ +30% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.10 | ↑ +34% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $54.52 | ↑ +41% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $57.49 | ↑ +48% |
| Magellan | Commercial|All Plans | $59.47 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $61.45 | ↑ +59% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Redlands | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +59% |
| Ballards Rehab | Commercial|All Plans | $67.65 | ↑ +75% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $68.88 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $69.38 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.36 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $73.80 | ↑ +90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.80 | ↑ +90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $74.34 | ↑ +92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $78.99 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $79.29 | ↑ +105% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $90.20 | ↑ +133% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $94.90 | ↑ +145% |
| SBMG | Commercial|All Plans | $99.11 | ↑ +156% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $99.11 | ↑ +156% |
| Epic Health | Commercial|All Plans | $104.55 | ↑ +170% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $119.92 | ↑ +209% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $172.20 | ↑ +344% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $176.43 | ↑ +355% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $176.43 | ↑ +355% |
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Chylomicron screen, bf - sendout at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $33.01 | $25.77 – $176.43 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $109.94 | $52.10 – $195.78 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $23.16 | $12.30 – $39.62 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $42.42 | $15.03 – $158.48 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $38.86 | $8.12 – $186.31 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $11.15 | $6.00 – $176.75 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $11.03 | $6.00 – $176.75 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $17.16 | $1.20 – $9.60 |