Joint injection in San Bernardino

No hospital in San Bernardino publishes a self-pay price for this one. Where a hospital publishes a negotiated range instead, it is shown below.

For scale: Medicare pays hospitals about $314 for this as an outpatient service — the 2026 national rate, before local wage adjustment.

These prices are not directly comparable

Hospitals bill this one at different levels. One may publish a single operating-room line while another publishes the whole surgical episode — both honest, both under the same billing code. So the figures below are what each hospital publishes, not a like-for-like comparison, and we do not compute a "cheapest" from them. Why →

Hospital	Self-pay price	List price	Insurers pay	Publishes
Bear Valley Community Hospital bvchd.com · Big Bear Lake	$54–$543 varies	$457	$26–$659	C
Mountains Community Hospital mchcares.com · Lake Arrowhead	$312	$780	$46–$1,028	C
Chino Valley Medical Center cvmc.com · Chino	$392	$11,750	$66–$786	B
Desert Valley Hospital dvmc.com · Victorville	$392	$1,155	$66–$589	B
Montclair Hospital Medical Center montclair-hospital.org · Montclair	$392	$1,946	$66–$786	B
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital lluh.org · Loma Linda	$405–$659 varies	$1,465	$77–$11,231	C
Loma Linda University Medical Center lluh.org · Loma Linda	$548–$1,026 varies	$2,280	$79–$27,467	C
Victor Valley Global Medical Center victorvalleyglobalmedicalcenter.com · Victorville	$909	$909	$54–$50,000	C
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Fontana/ontario healthy.kaiserpermanente.org · Fontana	$952	$1,830	$293–$871	B
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center arrowheadregional.org · Colton	$1,363–$1,609 varies	$1,609	$59–$6,000	B
Redlands Community Hospital arrowheadregional.org · Redlands	$1,363–$1,609 varies	$1,609	$59–$6,000	B
St Bernardine Medical Center chisaintjosephhealth.org · San Bernardino	not published	—	$53–$12,827	D
Community Hospital of San Bernardino chisaintjosephhealth.org · San Bernardino	not published	—	$53–$6,858	C

What these three numbers mean

Self-pay price is what the hospital says it charges someone paying directly. It is the number to ask for by name. List price is the undiscounted charge almost nobody pays. Insurers pay is the range of procedure-specific negotiated rates in the file — useful mainly to see whether the self-pay price is above or below what insurers get.

Some hospitals attach one flat rate to nearly their whole price list. Those are excluded here, because a number identical for a colonoscopy and a blood test says nothing about either. More on that →

Billing code CPT 20610 — Joint injection (major joint). Every price on this page is read from the hospital's own published file; open a hospital to see which file and when it was read.