Tilt table study at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$559.09
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.
$1,715.00
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.
$428.75 with Health Net 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $428.75 | ↓ -23% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $445.90 | ↓ -20% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $606.70 | ↑ +9% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $674.18 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $775.31 | ↑ +39% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $788.90 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $842.72 | ↑ +51% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $842.72 | ↑ +51% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $842.72 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $842.72 | ↑ +51% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $842.73 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $842.73 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $960.40 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $1,029.00 | ↑ +84% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,063.30 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,114.75 | ↑ +99% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,286.25 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,320.55 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,372.00 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $3,645.00 | ↑ +552% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,713.00 | ↑ +743% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,945.00 | ↑ +784% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +1222% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9,797.00 | ↑ +1652% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12,161.00 | ↑ +2075% |
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Tilt table study at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,588.63 | $674.18 – $2,829.06 |
| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $4,659.20 | not published |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $4,659.20 | not published |
| Baldwin Park Medical Center | BALDWIN PARK | $1,622.40 | not published |
| Riverside Medical Center | RIVERSIDE | $1,622.40 | not published |
| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $4,659.20 | not published |
| Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | $4,659.20 | not published |
| Walnut Creek Medical Center | WALNUT CREEK | $4,659.20 | not published |