Sex chromatin identification 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

$159.57

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.

$329.00

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.

$17.98 with HPN vs $259.91 with MultiPlan — 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
HPN Medicare|Senior $17.98 ↓ -89%
Central Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Preferred IPA Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Health Net Medicare|All Other Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Other Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Health Net Medicare|Senior $17.98 ↓ -89%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
EasyChoice Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
GlobalCare Commercial|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $17.98 ↓ -89%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
LA Care Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
United Medicare|All Plans $17.98 ↓ -89%
Noble IPA Medicare|All Plans $18.88 ↓ -88%
Central California Alliance for Health Medicaid|All Plans $20.03 ↓ -87%
Noble IPA Medicaid|> 21 $20.62 ↓ -87%
Noble IPA Medicaid|< 21 $20.62 ↓ -87%
United Commercial|HMO $21.58 ↓ -86%
United Commercial|PPO $21.58 ↓ -86%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $22.48 ↓ -86%
HCLA Commercial|Preferred IPA $22.48 ↓ -86%
Gold Coast Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $22.91 ↓ -86%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $22.91 ↓ -86%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $22.91 ↓ -86%
Angeles IPA Medicare|All Plans $22.91 ↓ -86%
Inland Empire Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $22.91 ↓ -86%
Preferred IPA Medicaid|Risk $22.91 ↓ -86%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $25.20 ↓ -84%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $31.07 ↓ -81%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $31.07 ↓ -81%
Molina Medicaid|> 21 $32.07 ↓ -80%
Molina Medicaid|< 21 $32.07 ↓ -80%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $34.37 ↓ -78%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $34.37 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $35.68 ↓ -78%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $35.68 ↓ -78%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $56.21 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $74.27 ↓ -53%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $74.27 ↓ -53%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $74.27 ↓ -53%
DHR Medicaid|> 21 $82.25 ↓ -48%
DHR Medicaid|< 21 $82.25 ↓ -48%
Care 1st Medicaid|All Plans $114.55 ↓ -28%
Blue Shield CA Medicaid|All Plans $114.55 ↓ -28%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Exchange $120.02 ↓ -25%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $181.71 ↑ +14%
HPN Commercial|All Plans $203.98 ↑ +28%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $223.72 ↑ +40%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $227.01 ↑ +42%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $230.30 ↑ +44%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|Promise $246.75 ↑ +55%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $253.33 ↑ +59%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $259.91 ↑ +63%

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Sex chromatin identification at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. Mary Medical Center Long Beach $81.70 $17.98 – $114.55
Community Hospital San Bernardino San Bernardino $75.86 $17.98 – $194.00
Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center Glendale $63.57 $17.98 – $156.00
St. Bernardine Medical Center San Bernardino $63.61 $15.46 – $156.62
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma not published $17.62 – $122.83
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa not published $17.98 – $155.23
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka not published $17.98 – $176.03
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg not published $17.98 – $70.22

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