Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$1,080.58
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.
$2,228.00
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.
$179.75 with HCLA vs $6,152.00 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 | $179.75 | ↓ -83% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $179.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $179.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $179.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $181.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $205.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $244.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $244.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $256.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $256.46 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $269.63 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $269.63 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $280.85 | ↓ -74% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $284.96 | ↓ -74% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $284.96 | ↓ -74% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicare|Senior | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| GlobalCare | Commercial|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Noble IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $322.49 | ↓ -70% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $337.84 | ↓ -69% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $342.15 | ↓ -68% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $383.91 | ↓ -64% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $383.91 | ↓ -64% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $398.94 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $398.94 | ↓ -63% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $557.00 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $557.00 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $632.72 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $832.86 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $832.86 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,145.42 | ↑ +6% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $1,381.36 | ↑ +28% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,424.80 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,424.80 | ↑ +32% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,537.32 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,559.60 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $1,671.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,715.56 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,734.13 | ↑ +60% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,760.12 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,985.00 | ↑ +84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,135.13 | ↑ +98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,152.00 | ↑ +469% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,241.30 | $221.09 – $2,210.52 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,143.52 | $48.34 – $1,830.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,428.51 | $321.54 – $1,094.08 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,436.80 | $179.75 – $2,597.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $6,036.63 | $120.30 – $455.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,157.57 | $179.75 – $1,809.08 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,031.01 | $179.75 – $2,223.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,019.90 | $179.75 – $2,195.41 |