Smear gram stain at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$52.82
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.
$162.00
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.
$4.27 with DHR vs $124.80 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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| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $4.91 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $4.96 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $4.96 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $4.96 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $5.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.08 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.08 | ↓ -88% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.10 | ↓ -88% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.10 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $6.45 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $6.45 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.58 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.94 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.44 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9.54 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.54 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.64 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $21.57 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.57 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $21.57 | ↓ -59% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.80 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $31.20 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $39.00 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $39.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.12 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $52.11 | ↓ -1% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $71.76 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $87.36 | ↑ +65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $93.60 | ↑ +77% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $96.72 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $101.40 | ↑ +92% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $117.00 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $124.80 | ↑ +136% |
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Smear gram stain at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $90.67 | $4.27 – $13.33 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.25 | $0.85 – $5.71 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $301.92 | $4.18 – $34.84 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $104.01 | $4.27 – $11.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $117.22 | $4.27 – $10.47 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $95.26 | $3.24 – $12.95 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $94.98 | $1.51 – $12.29 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $93.96 | $1.51 – $12.29 |