Lithium therapeutic drug level at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$132.54
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.
$398.00
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.
$5.68 with Kaiser vs $68.00 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 | $5.68 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.93 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.93 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -94% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $9.58 | ↓ -93% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $9.58 | ↓ -93% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.24 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.89 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.89 | ↓ -91% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.37 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.75 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.76 | ↓ -90% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $12.89 | ↓ -90% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $17.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $18.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $20.40 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.52 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $26.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $31.84 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $40.12 | ↓ -70% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $40.12 | ↓ -70% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.15 | ↓ -68% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $42.84 | ↓ -68% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $44.88 | ↓ -66% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $54.40 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $55.76 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $57.12 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $57.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $57.80 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $68.00 | ↓ -49% |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $147.80 | $6.61 – $378.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $139.29 | $6.61 – $20.63 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $12.52 | $1.32 – $19.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $97.92 | $6.48 – $53.91 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $122.41 | $6.61 – $22.54 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $85.92 | $6.61 – $16.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $112.12 | $6.21 – $22.54 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $57.51 | $6.61 – $55.20 |