New Patient Office Visit (level 5) at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$263.74
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.
$809.00
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.
$124.00 with Blue Shield CA vs $760.46 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $124.00 | ↓ -53% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $147.33 | ↓ -44% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $147.33 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $147.33 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $148.28 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $167.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $180.63 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $180.63 | ↓ -32% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $181.21 | ↓ -31% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $181.21 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $191.53 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $191.53 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $202.25 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $206.26 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $221.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $221.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $232.00 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $232.00 | ↓ -12% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $372.14 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $453.04 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $485.40 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $501.58 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $525.85 | ↑ +99% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $606.75 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $614.84 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $614.84 | ↑ +133% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $623.21 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $647.20 | ↑ +145% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $728.10 | ↑ +176% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $736.65 | ↑ +179% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $760.46 | ↑ +188% |
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New Patient Office Visit (level 5) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $822.12 | $102.00 – $313.56 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $3,570.68 | $136.46 – $630.50 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $291.04 | $118.62 – $567.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $402.27 | $77.61 – $294.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $222.27 | $118.62 – $449.82 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $253.60 | $104.00 – $683.10 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $970.53 | not published |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $164.73 | not published |