Brain image w/flow 4 + views at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$717.53
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.
$2,201.00
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.
$228.33 with HCLA vs $1,991.18 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 | $228.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $228.33 | ↓ -68% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $228.33 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $279.93 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $279.93 | ↓ -61% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $280.85 | ↓ -61% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $280.85 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $285.41 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $296.83 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $296.83 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $319.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $342.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $342.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $550.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $633.15 | ↓ -12% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $786.52 | ↑ +10% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $854.91 | ↑ +19% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $965.84 | ↑ +35% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,012.46 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,013.93 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,101.15 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,101.15 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,101.15 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,101.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,141.65 | ↑ +59% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,232.56 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,280.45 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,280.45 | ↑ +78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,280.45 | ↑ +78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $1,320.60 | ↑ +84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,337.81 | ↑ +86% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,364.62 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,430.65 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $1,518.69 | ↑ +112% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,650.75 | ↑ +130% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $1,694.77 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,760.80 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,991.18 | ↑ +178% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,991.18 | ↑ +178% |
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Brain image w/flow 4 + views at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,503.22 | $345.45 – $2,676.96 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,039.42 | $228.33 – $4,445.28 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,722.28 | $228.33 – $3,968.02 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,627.59 | $228.33 – $2,704.43 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $470.06 | $228.33 – $2,565.73 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $464.99 | $228.33 – $2,565.73 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,516.34 | $755.17 – $1,130.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,138.03 | $698.35 – $1,281.80 |