Creatinine 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

$45.97

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.

$141.00

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.

$2.00 with Blue Shield CA vs $30.90 with Care 1st — 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
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $2.00 ↓ -96%
Health Net Medicaid|DHR $2.50 ↓ -95%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $2.70 ↓ -94%
HPN Medicare|All Plans $4.60 ↓ -90%
Care 1st Medicare|All Other Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
US Behavioral Health Medicare|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
MHN Commercial|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $5.12 ↓ -89%
United Medicare|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
DHR Medicare|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
CareMore Medicare|All Plans $5.12 ↓ -89%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $5.60 ↓ -88%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Alhambra Senior $5.89 ↓ -87%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Magellan $6.00 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|Navigate $6.14 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|HMO $6.14 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|Options PPO $6.14 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|PPO $6.14 ↓ -87%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $6.18 ↓ -87%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $6.18 ↓ -87%
Health Net Medicaid|Preferred IPA $6.18 ↓ -87%
SCAN Medicare|All Plans $6.20 ↓ -87%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|HCLA $6.40 ↓ -86%
Health Net Commercial|HCLA $6.40 ↓ -86%
HCLA Commercial|Preferred IPA $6.40 ↓ -86%
HCLA Commercial|All Other Plans $6.40 ↓ -86%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $6.40 ↓ -86%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Alhambra $6.40 ↓ -86%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $6.50 ↓ -86%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $6.65 ↓ -86%
Care 1st Medicare|BlueShield Promise $7.50 ↓ -84%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $7.58 ↓ -84%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $7.58 ↓ -84%
HPN Medicaid|> 21 $7.60 ↓ -83%
HPN Medicaid|< 21 $7.60 ↓ -83%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $8.00 ↓ -83%
Health Net Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 $8.04 ↓ -83%
Health Net Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 $8.04 ↓ -83%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Non-MCS $8.20 ↓ -82%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $8.65 ↓ -81%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $9.27 ↓ -80%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $9.27 ↓ -80%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $10.00 ↓ -78%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $10.00 ↓ -78%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $10.00 ↓ -78%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $10.00 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $11.43 ↓ -75%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $11.43 ↓ -75%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $18.23 ↓ -60%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $30.90 ↓ -33%

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Creatinine at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $133.16 $5.12 – $15.98
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $28.17 $1.02 – $43.65
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $213.18 $5.02 – $41.77
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $105.72 $3.84 – $13.20
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $61.28 $5.12 – $9.80
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $96.83 $2.08 – $15.52
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $150.63 $5.00 – $14.72
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $149.01 $5.00 – $14.72

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