Red blood cells each unit at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$747.85
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.
$2,294.00
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.
$92.15 with Healthcare Partners vs $12,161.00 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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| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $92.15 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $106.70 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $121.25 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $129.66 | ↓ -83% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $129.66 | ↓ -83% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $129.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $158.96 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $158.96 | ↓ -79% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $159.48 | ↓ -79% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $159.48 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $162.08 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $168.56 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $168.56 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $170.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $181.52 | ↓ -76% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $183.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $194.49 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $194.49 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $210.88 | ↓ -72% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $223.10 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $229.21 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $271.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $291.00 | ↓ -61% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $300.70 | ↓ -60% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $315.25 | ↓ -58% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $363.75 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $373.45 | ↓ -50% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $388.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $397.70 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $485.00 | ↓ -35% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $548.46 | ↓ -27% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $648.30 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +888% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9,797.00 | ↑ +1210% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12,161.00 | ↑ +1526% |
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Red blood cells each unit at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $146.73 | $90.45 – $340.16 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $873.71 | $129.66 – $1,884.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $864.29 | $129.66 – $1,860.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $511.27 | $129.66 – $1,425.98 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $690.87 | $48.72 – $198.94 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $217.33 | $129.66 – $422.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $457.65 | $129.66 – $864.45 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $126.67 | $113.50 – $4,018.00 |