Contrast x-ray gallbladder at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$341.00
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.
$1,046.00
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.
$55.12 with Health Net vs $726.82 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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| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $55.12 | ↓ -84% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $55.12 | ↓ -84% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $55.12 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $67.58 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $67.58 | ↓ -80% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $67.80 | ↓ -80% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $67.80 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $68.90 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $71.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $71.66 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $77.17 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $82.68 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $82.68 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $123.50 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $196.31 | ↓ -42% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -34% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $226.33 | ↓ -34% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $227.24 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $231.45 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $231.45 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $231.45 | ↓ -32% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $233.16 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $259.01 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $260.12 | ↓ -24% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $275.60 | ↓ -19% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $276.64 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $282.74 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $296.40 | ↓ -13% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $306.28 | ↓ -10% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $321.10 | ↓ -6% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $340.86 | ↓ -0% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $370.50 | ↑ +9% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $380.38 | ↑ +12% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $395.20 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $401.74 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $401.74 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $401.74 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $726.82 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $726.82 | ↑ +113% |
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Contrast x-ray gallbladder at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $483.56 | $83.39 – $864.73 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,042.29 | $55.12 – $723.24 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $124.29 | $55.12 – $936.54 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $122.95 | $55.12 – $936.54 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $252.96 | $218.84 – $291.55 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $295.80 | $225.59 – $291.55 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $527.44 | $55.12 – $736.36 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $265.71 | $186.18 – $291.55 |