Fibrinogen activity at California Hospital Medical Center

1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$178.48

Cash price

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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.

$368.00

Gross charge

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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.

$7.92 with Blue Shield CA vs $54.70 with Blue Shield CA — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $7.92 ↓ -96%
DHR Medicaid|< 21 $8.25 ↓ -95%
DHR Medicaid|> 21 $8.25 ↓ -95%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Preferred IPA Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $9.72 ↓ -95%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
United Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Health Net Medicare|All Other Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Health Net Medicare|Senior $9.72 ↓ -95%
Central Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
GlobalCare Commercial|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Other Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
EasyChoice Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
HPN Medicare|Senior $9.72 ↓ -95%
LA Care Medicare|All Plans $9.72 ↓ -95%
Noble IPA Medicaid|> 21 $9.85 ↓ -94%
Noble IPA Medicaid|< 21 $9.85 ↓ -94%
Noble IPA Medicare|All Plans $10.21 ↓ -94%
Central California Alliance for Health Medicaid|All Plans $10.83 ↓ -94%
Angeles IPA Medicare|All Plans $10.94 ↓ -94%
Inland Empire Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $10.94 ↓ -94%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $10.94 ↓ -94%
Gold Coast Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $10.94 ↓ -94%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $10.94 ↓ -94%
Preferred IPA Medicaid|Risk $10.94 ↓ -94%
United Commercial|PPO $11.66 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|HMO $11.66 ↓ -93%
HCLA Commercial|Preferred IPA $12.15 ↓ -93%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $12.15 ↓ -93%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $13.80 ↓ -92%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $14.83 ↓ -92%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $14.83 ↓ -92%
Molina Medicaid|> 21 $15.32 ↓ -91%
Molina Medicaid|< 21 $15.32 ↓ -91%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $16.41 ↓ -91%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $16.41 ↓ -91%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $19.29 ↓ -89%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $19.29 ↓ -89%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Exchange $19.80 ↓ -89%
HPN Commercial|All Plans $20.46 ↓ -89%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $22.77 ↓ -87%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $23.10 ↓ -87%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|Promise $24.75 ↓ -86%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $25.41 ↓ -86%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $26.07 ↓ -85%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $26.86 ↓ -85%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $30.03 ↓ -83%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $33.00 ↓ -82%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $33.00 ↓ -82%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $33.00 ↓ -82%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $33.00 ↓ -82%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $54.70 ↓ -69%
Blue Shield CA Medicaid|All Plans $54.70 ↓ -69%

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Fibrinogen activity at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $197.10 $9.72 – $30.33
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $17.88 $1.94 – $12.59
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $194.31 $9.53 – $68.92
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $114.71 $7.02 – $25.05
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $153.18 $9.72 – $225.40
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $105.06 $3.79 – $29.45
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $108.71 $9.72 – $88.80
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $107.54 $9.72 – $87.69

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