Smear wet mount at Community Hospital San Bernardino
1805 Medical Center Dr, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1235290818
$82.11
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.
$210.00
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.
$5.11 with Kaiser vs $115.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Redlands | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $5.82 | ↓ -93% |
| Ballards Rehab | Commercial|All Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.98 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.98 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.15 | ↓ -91% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.50 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.74 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.91 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $9.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Epic Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -88% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $11.35 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $11.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.68 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.55 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $35.75 | ↓ -56% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $37.70 | ↓ -54% |
| Magellan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.00 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $40.30 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.78 | ↓ -49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $45.50 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $48.75 | ↓ -41% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $52.00 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $52.24 | ↓ -36% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $65.00 | ↓ -21% |
| SBMG | Commercial|All Plans | $115.00 | ↑ +40% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Smear wet mount at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $69.93 | $5.01 – $67.24 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $70.52 | $5.82 – $18.16 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $12.28 | $1.16 – $17.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $275.91 | $5.70 – $34.84 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $105.29 | $5.11 – $18.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $48.62 | $5.11 – $14.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $96.44 | $5.11 – $21.56 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $92.01 | $5.00 – $47.20 |