Handle/convey/speciman/office-lab 99000 at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$14.35
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.
$44.00
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.
$3.63 with HCLA vs $35.20 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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| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $3.63 | ↓ -75% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $3.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $3.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.45 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.46 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.46 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.54 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $4.72 | ↓ -67% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $4.72 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.45 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.45 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.70 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.70 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $6.70 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.80 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $11.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.88 | ↓ -17% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.35 | ↑ +7% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.15 | ↑ +26% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $20.24 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $24.64 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $26.40 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $27.28 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $28.60 | ↑ +99% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $33.00 | ↑ +130% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $35.20 | ↑ +145% |
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Handle/convey/speciman/office-lab 99000 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | not published | $11.54 – $11.54 |