Middle cerebral artery echo at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$126.17
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.
$387.00
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.
$82.17 with HCLA vs $443.01 with Cigna — 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 | $82.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $82.17 | ↓ -35% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $82.17 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $96.75 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $100.74 | ↓ -20% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $100.74 | ↓ -20% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $101.07 | ↓ -20% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $101.07 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $102.71 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $106.83 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $106.83 | ↓ -15% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $115.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $123.25 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $123.25 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $134.13 | ↑ +6% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $135.12 | ↑ +7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $155.39 | ↑ +23% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $168.90 | ↑ +34% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $178.02 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $216.72 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $232.20 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $239.94 | ↑ +90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $245.18 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $245.18 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $245.18 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $245.18 | ↑ +94% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $251.55 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $267.03 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $271.60 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $271.60 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $271.60 | ↑ +115% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $290.25 | ↑ +130% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $297.99 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $309.60 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $317.34 | ↑ +152% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $347.58 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $387.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $410.85 | ↑ +226% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $443.01 | ↑ +251% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $443.01 | ↑ +251% |
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Middle cerebral artery echo at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $157.68 | $97.20 – $527.07 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $633.50 | $21.27 – $782.79 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $163.07 | $82.17 – $511.83 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $225.40 | $82.17 – $601.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $133.56 | $82.17 – $570.84 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $132.12 | $82.17 – $570.84 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $936.36 | $134.46 – $535.56 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $557.43 | $536.81 – $536.81 |