Echo stress at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$1,749.32
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.
$5,366.00
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.
$137.87 with Health Net vs $11,526.00 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.
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 | $137.87 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $137.87 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $137.87 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $169.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $169.03 | ↓ -90% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $169.58 | ↓ -90% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $169.58 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $172.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $179.24 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $179.24 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $193.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $206.81 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $206.81 | ↓ -88% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $583.19 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $615.40 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $631.43 | ↓ -64% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $689.35 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $801.17 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $811.97 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $870.84 | ↓ -50% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $968.00 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $1,097.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $1,341.50 | ↓ -23% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $2,468.36 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,004.96 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $3,219.60 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $3,326.92 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,487.90 | ↑ +99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $3,645.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $4,024.50 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $4,078.16 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,292.80 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,713.00 | ↑ +169% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,945.00 | ↑ +183% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,732.00 | ↑ +285% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9,283.00 | ↑ +431% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11,526.00 | ↑ +559% |
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Echo stress at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,465.55 | $208.58 – $2,609.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $739.27 | $59.86 – $158.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,081.56 | $137.87 – $2,476.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $990.59 | $137.87 – $2,476.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $761.67 | $137.87 – $1,642.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,608.20 | $137.87 – $1,621.87 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $8,183.46 | $640.28 – $3,331.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $971.04 | $702.78 – $3,331.00 |