Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at St. Bernardine Medical Center
2101 N Waterman Ave, San Bernardino, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1689769911
$4.71
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.
$14.12
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.
$3.68 with Blue Shield CA vs $33.05 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 | $3.68 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4.24 | ↓ -10% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.79 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.51 | ↑ +17% |
| IHCG | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| First Health | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Epic Health | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Patton | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| IHCG | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +18% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +40% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +40% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +40% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.68 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.68 | ↑ +42% |
| Redlands | Commercial|All Plans | $8.08 | ↑ +72% |
| DHMG | Commercial|All Plans | $8.08 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $8.34 | ↑ +77% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $8.34 | ↑ +77% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $8.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.32 | ↑ +98% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.32 | ↑ +98% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.32 | ↑ +98% |
| EPIC Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.47 | ↑ +101% |
| HPN | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.70 | ↑ +106% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.00 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.64 | ↑ +126% |
| Naphcare | Commercial|All Plans | $10.86 | ↑ +131% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.30 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $11.58 | ↑ +146% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS PPO | $11.87 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS HMO | $11.87 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $12.01 | ↑ +155% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.23 | ↑ +181% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Non-Gatekeeper | $14.12 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $14.12 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Gatekeeper | $14.12 | ↑ +200% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.98 | ↑ +239% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15.98 | ↑ +239% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.05 | ↑ +602% |
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Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $5.53 | $2.83 – $33.05 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.13 | $1.11 – $16.49 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $7.65 | $5.46 – $45.39 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $7.14 | $5.57 – $57.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $7.65 | $5.57 – $65.05 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $31.11 | $5.57 – $25.95 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $7.65 | $65.21 – $65.21 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $13.77 | $5.46 – $48.81 |