Echo transesophageal at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$1,401.60
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.
$4,209.00
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.
$445.43 with IHCG vs $5,960.00 with United — 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 |
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| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $445.43 | ↓ -68% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $446.70 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $555.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $599.14 | ↓ -57% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $792.80 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $792.80 | ↓ -43% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $1,010.17 | ↓ -28% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,184.34 | ↓ -16% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $1,220.61 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,262.70 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,276.76 | ↓ -9% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $1,358.51 | ↓ -3% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $2,483.31 | ↑ +77% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,651.67 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,777.94 | ↑ +98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,367.20 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,451.38 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $3,577.65 | ↑ +155% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,761.00 | ↑ +311% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,960.00 | ↑ +325% |
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Echo transesophageal at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $1,135.86 | $557.58 – $7,832.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,022.73 | $15.34 – $1,816.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $858.88 | $591.57 – $2,147.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $382.13 | $515.00 – $824.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $378.01 | $515.00 – $813.70 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $968.20 | $596.41 – $1,880.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $494.07 | $287.25 – $1,149.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $245.48 | $188.25 – $870.84 |