Fern test at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$56.40
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.
$173.00
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.
$9.74 with Care 1st vs $138.40 with MultiPlan — 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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| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $11.20 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.69 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11.69 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $11.69 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.69 | ↓ -79% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $12.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.72 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.72 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $34.60 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $43.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.71 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $66.41 | ↑ +18% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $79.58 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $87.63 | ↑ +55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $96.88 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $103.80 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $107.26 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $112.45 | ↑ +99% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $129.75 | ↑ +130% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $138.40 | ↑ +145% |
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Fern test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $41.32 | $1.95 – $64.02 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $47.86 | $9.74 – $86.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $47.35 | $9.74 – $85.32 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $65.67 | $9.74 – $92.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $76.74 | $8.28 – $214.02 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $67.98 | $9.74 – $124.08 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $70.85 | $9.74 – $124.46 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $16.98 | $8.40 – $27.65 |