Lanthanum carbonate oral 5mg at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$27.65
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.
$57.00
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.
$14.25 with BCBS - Anthem vs $57.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.25 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.25 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.25 | ↓ -48% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $17.10 | ↓ -38% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $17.10 | ↓ -38% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|All Other Plans < 21 | $19.95 | ↓ -28% |
| Preferred IPA | Medicaid|Risk | $19.95 | ↓ -28% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|All Other Plans > 21 | $19.95 | ↓ -28% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $35.34 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $36.48 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $39.33 | ↑ +42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.33 | ↑ +42% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.33 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $39.90 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $42.75 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $43.89 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.03 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.72 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $57.00 | ↑ +106% |
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Lanthanum carbonate oral 5mg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $14.02 | $8.64 – $24.96 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $40.77 | $28.08 – $101.92 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $12.65 | $2.34 – $9.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $26.78 | $2.50 – $9.90 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $37.80 | $24.36 – $76.44 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $11.44 | $8.20 – $41.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $27.25 | $4.90 – $9.80 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $30.58 | $18.48 – $73.08 |