Electrolyte panel at Community Hospital San Bernardino
1805 Medical Center Dr, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1235290818
$157.19
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.
$402.00
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.
$7.01 with Central Health Plan vs $402.00 with SBMG — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Redlands | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -96% |
| Ballards Rehab | Commercial|All Plans | $7.71 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.41 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.41 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -94% |
| Epic Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.52 | ↓ -92% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.11 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.53 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.53 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.59 | ↓ -91% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $13.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $16.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $16.13 | ↓ -90% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.87 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $19.37 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.20 | ↓ -83% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $44.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.70 | ↓ -72% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $46.40 | ↓ -70% |
| Magellan | Commercial|All Plans | $48.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $49.60 | ↓ -68% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.00 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58.40 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $60.00 | ↓ -62% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.00 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $72.80 | ↓ -54% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $80.00 | ↓ -49% |
| SBMG | Commercial|All Plans | $402.00 | ↑ +156% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Electrolyte panel at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $239.43 | $6.03 – $70.52 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $209.37 | $7.01 – $21.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $48.83 | $1.40 – $75.66 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $329.46 | $6.87 – $57.27 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $139.53 | $7.01 – $22.54 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $95.24 | $7.01 – $128.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $127.80 | $6.21 – $22.54 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $274.54 | $7.01 – $48.00 |