Brain image w/flow < 4 views at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$392.94
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.
$1,180.00
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.
$197.65 with Partnership Health Plan vs $1,972.88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $197.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $197.65 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $197.65 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $197.65 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $278.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $278.69 | ↓ -29% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $289.95 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $296.48 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $299.03 | ↓ -24% |
| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $340.50 | ↓ -13% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $341.47 | ↓ -13% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $342.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $354.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $395.29 | ↑ +1% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $439.09 | ↑ +12% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $586.04 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $692.34 | ↑ +76% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $696.20 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $696.20 | ↑ +77% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $740.33 | ↑ +88% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $743.40 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $778.80 | ↑ +98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↑ +116% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $867.97 | ↑ +121% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $944.00 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $967.60 | ↑ +146% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $988.25 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $991.20 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $991.20 | ↑ +152% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $995.61 | ↑ +153% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,003.00 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,180.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,972.88 | ↑ +402% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,972.88 | ↑ +402% |
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Brain image w/flow < 4 views at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $1,035.37 | $197.65 – $2,648.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $948.45 | $197.65 – $2,171.68 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,543.79 | $197.65 – $2,456.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $868.68 | $197.65 – $2,171.68 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $365.44 | $197.65 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $361.50 | $197.65 – $1,976.45 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $988.38 | $567.62 – $991.43 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,888.26 | $197.65 – $4,027.84 |