Limited autopsy at California Hospital Medical Center
1401 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1114081056
$75.66
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.
$156.00
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.
$39.00 with DHR vs $210.07 with Cigna — 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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| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $39.00 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $39.00 | ↓ -48% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $96.72 | ↑ +28% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $107.64 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $109.20 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|Promise | $117.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $120.12 | ↑ +59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $123.24 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $126.46 | ↑ +67% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $126.46 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $156.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $156.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $156.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.07 | ↑ +178% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $210.07 | ↑ +178% |
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Limited autopsy at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $903.66 | $278.77 – $1,138.28 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $262.73 | $38.00 – $611.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $247.90 | $126.46 – $634.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $205.06 | $126.46 – $503.20 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $588.89 | $126.46 – $1,138.28 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $207.46 | $126.46 – $529.55 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $678.33 | $650.45 – $1,138.28 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $207.16 – $519.38 |