Fluoroguide needle placement at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$437.96
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.
$903.00
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.
$59.86 with Noble IPA vs $2,917.00 with Healthcare Partners — 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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| Noble IPA | Medicaid|> 21 | $59.86 | ↓ -86% |
| Noble IPA | Medicaid|< 21 | $59.86 | ↓ -86% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Angeles IPA | Medicare|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $66.51 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $83.14 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $90.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $90.19 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $93.11 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $93.11 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.77 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.77 | ↓ -77% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $225.75 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $225.75 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $234.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $289.26 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $289.26 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $289.26 | ↓ -34% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|All Plans | $332.55 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $332.55 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $383.96 | ↓ -12% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $559.86 | ↑ +28% |
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $577.92 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $581.30 | ↑ +33% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $623.07 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $632.10 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $677.25 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $695.31 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $713.37 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $715.72 | ↑ +63% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $2,917.00 | ↑ +566% |
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Fluoroguide needle placement at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,216.77 | $100.63 – $2,166.84 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $581.87 | $109.74 – $860.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,106.19 | $262.41 – $392.94 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $658.27 | $66.51 – $1,292.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,963.37 | $21.48 – $81.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $536.26 | $66.51 – $765.38 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $480.82 | $66.51 – $1,036.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $475.64 | $66.51 – $1,283.04 |