Pyruvate at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$8.22
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.
$24.68
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.
$6.42 with Blue Shield CA vs $83.05 with Care 1st — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.41 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.63 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.45 | ↑ +51% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.48 | ↑ +76% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $14.57 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $14.57 | ↑ +77% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $15.55 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16.29 | ↑ +98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.61 | ↑ +102% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.61 | ↑ +102% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.61 | ↑ +102% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.61 | ↑ +102% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.38 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.38 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $19.75 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.24 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $20.74 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $20.74 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $20.98 | ↑ +155% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +155% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $21.00 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.57 | ↑ +162% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.42 | ↑ +185% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.42 | ↑ +185% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.37 | ↑ +196% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24.62 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $24.68 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $24.68 | ↑ +200% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.68 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $24.68 | ↑ +200% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.13 | ↑ +206% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $28.24 | ↑ +244% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.53 | ↑ +405% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $41.53 | ↑ +405% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $83.05 | ↑ +910% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Pyruvate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $9.65 | $4.94 – $83.05 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.27 | $3.25 – $38.41 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $13.15 | $2.90 – $20.37 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $51.74 | $14.19 – $88.65 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $10.57 | $9.40 – $37.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $9.68 | $5.08 – $43.85 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $9.16 | $12.34 – $41.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $9.06 | $12.34 – $41.60 |