Homogenization tissue at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$15.98
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.
$49.00
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.
$4.12 with Blue Shield CA vs $37.50 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.
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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $5.15 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.56 | ↓ -65% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.88 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $6.76 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.06 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.06 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $7.06 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $7.06 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $7.35 | ↓ -54% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $7.50 | ↓ -53% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $7.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $7.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.20 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.20 | ↓ -42% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.23 | ↓ -42% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.23 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.38 | ↓ -41% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $9.47 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $9.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $9.75 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.50 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.25 | ↓ -30% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.25 | ↓ -30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $11.52 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $12.35 | ↓ -23% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $12.76 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.11 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $13.11 | ↓ -18% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.38 | ↓ -16% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $15.43 | ↓ -3% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16.46 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $16.87 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20.57 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20.57 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.57 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $20.57 | ↑ +29% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.12 | ↑ +38% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $37.50 | ↑ +135% |
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Homogenization tissue at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $40.30 | $5.88 – $71.76 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $74.05 | $5.88 – $16.66 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $9.80 | $5.88 – $14.41 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $67.82 | $4.59 – $17.80 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7.64 | $5.88 – $16.89 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7.55 | $5.88 – $16.89 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $11.75 | $1.70 – $13.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $47.04 | $3.15 – $15.00 |