Crystal identification light microscopy at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$67.27
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.
$202.00
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.
$6.30 with Kaiser vs $71.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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|All Plans | $6.30 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.80 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -86% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -86% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -86% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -84% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -84% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.46 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.86 | ↓ -81% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.86 | ↓ -81% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $14.29 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.81 | ↓ -78% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.25 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18.46 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.01 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.01 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $21.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.69 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $29.13 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $34.41 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $41.89 | ↓ -38% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $41.89 | ↓ -38% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $44.73 | ↓ -34% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.60 | ↓ -32% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $46.86 | ↓ -30% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $56.80 | ↓ -16% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $58.22 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $59.64 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $59.64 | ↓ -11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $60.35 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $71.00 | ↑ +6% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $70.78 | $7.33 – $72.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $77.09 | $7.33 – $22.87 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $52.59 | $1.47 – $73.72 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $176.46 | $7.18 – $58.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $119.84 | $7.33 – $21.56 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $104.57 | $4.75 – $17.97 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $109.76 | $5.94 – $22.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $68.64 | $7.33 – $52.00 |