Prednisone 1 mg tablet at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$1.63
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.
$5.00
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.
$0.01 with BCBS - Anthem vs $3.20 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $0.01 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $0.02 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.02 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $0.02 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $0.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $0.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $0.16 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.17 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.18 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $0.18 | ↓ -89% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $0.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $1.00 | ↓ -39% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.03 | ↓ -37% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.03 | ↓ -37% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $1.20 | ↓ -26% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $1.20 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $1.40 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1.61 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1.61 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1.84 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.84 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2.24 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.36 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2.36 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2.36 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $2.40 | ↑ +47% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $2.48 | ↑ +52% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2.60 | ↑ +60% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $3.00 | ↑ +84% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3.20 | ↑ +96% |
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Prednisone 1 mg tablet at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6.57 | $0.02 – $11.70 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $0.50 | $0.78 – $1.84 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5.61 | $0.01 – $3.07 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3.43 | $0.02 – $2.94 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2.67 | $1.04 – $3.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4.32 | $0.02 – $2.94 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2.97 | $0.02 – $3.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2.21 | $0.01 – $3.16 |