Calcium ionized at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center

1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$40.43

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$124.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$1.83 with Blue Shield CA vs $87.20 with Care 1st — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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 $1.83 ↓ -95%
Health Net Medicaid|DHR $2.28 ↓ -94%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $2.46 ↓ -94%
HPN Medicare|All Plans $4.20 ↓ -90%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $5.11 ↓ -87%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Magellan $5.47 ↓ -86%
SCAN Medicare|All Plans $5.65 ↓ -86%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $5.93 ↓ -85%
Care 1st Medicare|BlueShield Promise $6.84 ↓ -83%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $7.29 ↓ -82%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Non-MCS $7.48 ↓ -81%
United Commercial|HMO $9.11 ↓ -77%
United Commercial|Options PPO $9.11 ↓ -77%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $9.11 ↓ -77%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $9.11 ↓ -77%
Care 1st Medicare|All Other Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
DHR Medicare|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
Health Net Medicaid|Preferred IPA $9.11 ↓ -77%
MHN Commercial|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $9.11 ↓ -77%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $9.11 ↓ -77%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $9.11 ↓ -77%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $9.11 ↓ -77%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
CareMore Medicare|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
US Behavioral Health Medicare|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $9.11 ↓ -77%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $9.11 ↓ -77%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
United Commercial|Navigate $9.11 ↓ -77%
United Commercial|PPO $9.11 ↓ -77%
United Medicare|All Plans $9.11 ↓ -77%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Alhambra Senior $10.48 ↓ -74%
HCLA Commercial|Preferred IPA $11.39 ↓ -72%
Health Net Commercial|HCLA $11.39 ↓ -72%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Alhambra $11.39 ↓ -72%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|HCLA $11.39 ↓ -72%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $11.39 ↓ -72%
HCLA Commercial|All Other Plans $11.39 ↓ -72%
Health Net Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 $11.85 ↓ -71%
Health Net Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 $11.85 ↓ -71%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $13.67 ↓ -66%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $13.67 ↓ -66%
HPN Medicaid|< 21 $21.45 ↓ -47%
HPN Medicaid|> 21 $21.45 ↓ -47%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $30.50 ↓ -25%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $30.50 ↓ -25%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $38.54 ↓ -5%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $87.20 ↑ +116%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Calcium ionized at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $80.16 $2.46 – $36.29
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $89.25 $13.41 – $111.56
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $96.73 $4.56 – $35.24
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $6.07 $4.94 – $9.11
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $88.60 $2.46 – $41.43
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $79.77 $4.56 – $39.30
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $78.91 $4.56 – $39.30
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $264.69 $13.68 – $140.99

All California hospitals for this procedure →