Whole blood for transfusion at Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center
1420 S Central Ave, Glendale, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477610640
$672.54
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.
$2,063.00
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.
$254.85 with HCLA 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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| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $254.85 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Preferred IPA | $254.85 | ↓ -62% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $254.85 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $285.65 | ↓ -58% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| DHR | Medicare|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|All Other Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| US Behavioral Health | Medicare|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| CareMore | Medicare|All Plans | $286.04 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $312.45 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $312.45 | ↓ -54% |
| HPN | Medicaid|> 21 | $313.47 | ↓ -53% |
| HPN | Medicaid|< 21 | $313.47 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $318.56 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Alhambra Senior | $328.95 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra < 21 | $331.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Alhambra > 21 | $331.31 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $356.79 | ↓ -47% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Alhambra | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|HCLA | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Commercial|HCLA | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| HCLA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $357.55 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $382.27 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $382.27 | ↓ -43% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $391.97 | ↓ -42% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $453.86 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|DHR | $515.75 | ↓ -23% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $948.98 | ↑ +41% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,078.02 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,155.28 | ↑ +72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Magellan | $1,237.80 | ↑ +84% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,274.25 | ↑ +89% |
| SCAN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,279.06 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,340.95 | ↑ +99% |
| Care 1st | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $1,547.25 | ↑ +130% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,588.51 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,650.40 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,691.66 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,063.00 | ↑ +207% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +999% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $9,797.00 | ↑ +1357% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12,161.00 | ↑ +1708% |
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Whole blood for transfusion at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $146.73 | $90.45 – $571.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $873.71 | $254.85 – $1,639.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $864.29 | $254.85 – $1,618.71 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $306.00 | not published |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $511.27 | $254.85 – $1,232.46 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $229.50 | not published |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $640.30 | $183.12 – $747.74 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,158.24 | $167.13 – $1,952.00 |