Electrolyte panel at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$302.16
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.
$623.00
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.
$7.01 with EasyChoice vs $462.94 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|Senior | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| GlobalCare | Commercial|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $7.01 | ↓ -98% |
| Noble IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $7.36 | ↓ -98% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.81 | ↓ -97% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.05 | ↓ -97% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.05 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $8.41 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.41 | ↓ -97% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $8.76 | ↓ -97% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $8.76 | ↓ -97% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $8.94 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.33 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.12 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.52 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.52 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.41 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $13.92 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.92 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.93 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $34.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $34.62 | ↓ -89% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.70 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.70 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $55.96 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.71 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $104.30 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $140.64 | ↓ -53% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $146.50 | ↓ -52% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $146.50 | ↓ -52% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $363.32 | ↑ +20% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $404.34 | ↑ +34% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $410.20 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $439.50 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $451.22 | ↑ +49% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $462.94 | ↑ +53% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Electrolyte panel at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $209.37 | $7.01 – $21.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $48.83 | $1.40 – $75.66 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $329.46 | $6.87 – $57.27 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $139.53 | $7.01 – $22.54 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $95.24 | $7.01 – $128.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $127.80 | $6.21 – $22.54 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $274.54 | $7.01 – $48.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $271.58 | $7.01 – $47.40 |