Crystal identification light microscopy at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$31.30
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.
$96.00
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.
$7.33 with Health Net vs $87.21 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.33 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $8.43 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.80 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $8.80 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.80 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.80 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $9.12 | ↓ -71% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -71% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $9.12 | ↓ -71% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $9.16 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.18 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.18 | ↓ -64% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.22 | ↓ -64% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.22 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $11.86 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $11.86 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.34 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.33 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.33 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $19.20 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $24.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.92 | ↓ -17% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.90 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.10 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $36.10 | ↑ +15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $36.10 | ↑ +15% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $44.16 | ↑ +41% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.60 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $53.76 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $57.60 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $59.52 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $62.40 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $66.10 | ↑ +111% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $72.00 | ↑ +130% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $76.80 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $87.21 | ↑ +179% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Crystal identification light microscopy at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $77.09 | $7.33 – $22.87 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $52.59 | $1.47 – $73.72 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $176.46 | $7.18 – $58.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $119.84 | $7.33 – $21.56 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $104.57 | $4.75 – $17.97 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $109.76 | $5.94 – $22.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $68.64 | $7.33 – $52.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $67.90 | $7.33 – $51.35 |