Chest X-ray at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$295.03
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.
$905.00
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.
$27.47 with HCLA vs $724.00 with MultiPlan — 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 | $27.47 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $27.47 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $27.47 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $33.68 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $33.68 | ↓ -89% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $33.80 | ↓ -89% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $33.80 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $35.72 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $35.72 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.46 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $41.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $41.20 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $49.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $83.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $83.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $109.03 | ↓ -63% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -62% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $116.20 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $128.66 | ↓ -56% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $137.35 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $139.85 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $182.03 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $182.03 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $182.03 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $182.03 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $221.91 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $226.25 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $292.80 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $329.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $329.14 | ↑ +12% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $416.30 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $506.80 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $543.00 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $561.10 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $588.25 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $624.45 | ↑ +112% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $678.75 | ↑ +130% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $696.85 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $724.00 | ↑ +145% |
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Chest X-ray at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $295.22 | $41.56 – $525.72 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $314.25 | $17.61 – $486.94 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,100.58 | $106.75 – $181.03 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $580.80 | $27.47 – $1,158.36 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $460.88 | $27.47 – $170.52 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $573.11 | $27.47 – $720.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $319.81 | $27.47 – $689.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $316.36 | $27.47 – $680.98 |