Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$4.61
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$14.12
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$2.83 with Blue Shield CA vs $33.05 with Care 1st — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2.83 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $3.53 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.82 | ↓ -17% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.57 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $6.41 | ↑ +39% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $6.50 | ↑ +41% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +43% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $6.61 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $6.61 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $6.68 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.68 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $6.68 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.68 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $6.96 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.91 | ↑ +72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.10 | ↑ +76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.10 | ↑ +76% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.13 | ↑ +76% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.13 | ↑ +76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $8.48 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $8.60 | ↑ +87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $8.60 | ↑ +87% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $8.76 | ↑ +90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.86 | ↑ +92% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.18 | ↑ +99% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.25 | ↑ +101% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.91 | ↑ +115% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.91 | ↑ +115% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $10.59 | ↑ +130% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.30 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $11.58 | ↑ +151% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.42 | ↑ +169% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.42 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.12 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.12 | ↑ +206% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $14.12 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.12 | ↑ +206% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.50 | ↑ +323% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.05 | ↑ +617% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Reticulocyte direct measurement automated at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.13 | $1.11 – $16.49 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $7.65 | $5.46 – $45.39 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $7.14 | $5.57 – $57.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $7.65 | $5.57 – $65.05 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $31.11 | $5.57 – $25.95 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $7.65 | $65.21 – $65.21 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $13.77 | $5.46 – $48.81 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $8.64 | $4.73 – $11.14 |