Cornea pre-cut midwest eye cornea pre-cut midwest eye 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

$8,244.87

Cash price

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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.

$25,291.00

Gross charge

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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.

$545.00 with Care 1st vs $2,376.00 with United — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Care 1st Medicare|BlueShield Promise $545.00 ↓ -93%
Health Net Medicaid|DHR $594.00 ↓ -93%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $617.76 ↓ -93%
HPN Medicare|All Plans $1,092.96 ↓ -87%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $1,330.56 ↓ -84%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Magellan $1,425.60 ↓ -83%
SCAN Medicare|All Plans $1,473.12 ↓ -82%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $1,544.40 ↓ -81%
United Commercial|PPO $1,805.76 ↓ -78%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $1,900.80 ↓ -77%
United Commercial|Options PPO $2,138.40 ↓ -74%
United Commercial|HMO $2,233.44 ↓ -73%
United Commercial|Navigate $2,376.00 ↓ -71%

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Cornea pre-cut midwest eye cornea pre-cut midwest eye at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $5,266.08 $1,095.39 – $8,416.10
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $15,969.12 not published
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $8,619.07 $10,069.00 – $19,735.24
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $7,894.10 $5,437.26 – $19,735.24
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $11,950.58 not published
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $6,389.28 not published
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $7,616.85 not published
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $6,389.28 not published

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