Brain image < 4 views at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$472.38
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.
$1,449.00
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.
$168.33 with HCLA vs $1,533.86 with Cigna — 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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| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $168.33 | ↓ -64% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $168.33 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $206.37 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $206.37 | ↓ -56% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $207.05 | ↓ -56% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $207.05 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $210.41 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $218.83 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $218.83 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $235.66 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $252.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $252.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $362.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $487.79 | ↑ +3% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $510.57 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $587.16 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $638.21 | ↑ +35% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $666.54 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $689.87 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $689.87 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $689.87 | ↑ +46% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $712.04 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $754.95 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $811.44 | ↑ +72% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $841.65 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $848.52 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $869.40 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $898.38 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $941.85 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $996.10 | ↑ +111% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $999.81 | ↑ +112% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,086.75 | ↑ +130% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $1,115.73 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.20 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,533.86 | ↑ +225% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,533.86 | ↑ +225% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,986.35 | $168.33 – $2,070.74 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $663.35 | $168.33 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $656.20 | $168.33 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $490.98 | $168.33 – $835.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $996.01 | $168.33 – $848.52 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $959.49 | $168.33 – $3,439.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $346.29 | $151.50 – $1,364.43 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $913.32 | $151.50 – $2,124.00 |