Ext ecg>7d<15d scan a/r at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$232.32
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.
$479.00
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.
$31.68 with BCBS - Anthem 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $31.68 | ↓ -86% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $119.75 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $119.75 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Other Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| GlobalCare | Commercial|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Net | Medicare|Senior | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| EasyChoice | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -30% |
| Noble IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $171.97 | ↓ -26% |
| HPN | Medicare|Senior | $180.16 | ↓ -22% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $181.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $181.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $182.46 | ↓ -21% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $201.42 | ↓ -13% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $201.42 | ↓ -13% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $201.42 | ↓ -13% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $201.42 | ↓ -13% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $201.42 | ↓ -13% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $204.72 | ↓ -12% |
| HCLA | Commercial|Preferred IPA | $204.72 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $273.13 | ↑ +18% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $273.13 | ↑ +18% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $281.99 | ↑ +21% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $281.99 | ↑ +21% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $296.98 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $302.13 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $302.13 | ↑ +30% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $330.51 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $335.30 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $359.25 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $368.83 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $378.41 | ↑ +63% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $709.00 | ↑ +205% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,007.10 | ↑ +333% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,007.10 | ↑ +333% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,985.00 | ↑ +754% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,152.00 | ↑ +2548% |
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Ext ecg>7d<15d scan a/r at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $167.28 | $171.12 – $171.12 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $131.58 | not published |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $153.17 | $48.15 – $559.00 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $121.87 | $48.15 – $559.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $217.46 | $48.15 – $559.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $153.17 | $61.49 – $559.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $161.00 | $48.15 – $559.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $179.30 – $182.96 |