Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$21.19
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.
$65.00
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.
$3.74 with Blue Shield CA vs $18.68 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $4.67 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.05 | ↓ -76% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $8.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10.47 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $11.21 | ↓ -47% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $11.59 | ↓ -45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.15 | ↓ -43% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $14.01 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $14.20 | ↓ -33% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.95 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.82 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.56 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $18.68 | ↓ -12% |
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Assay of interleukin-6 (il-6) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $28.47 | $17.55 – $50.70 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $36.93 | $3.45 – $57.23 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $106.03 | $16.92 – $37.98 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $27.82 | $9.34 – $18.31 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $43.29 | $4.81 – $18.19 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $25.48 | $5.05 – $18.31 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $24.12 | $9.34 – $14.95 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $23.86 | $9.34 – $18.50 |