Cold agglutinin screen (arc) at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
15031 Rinaldi St, Mission Hills, CA · Providence · · NPI 1477587632
$10.71
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.
$30.60
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.
$8.07 with Aetna vs $63.84 with Blue Shield — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8.07 | ↓ -25% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8.23 | ↓ -23% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8.88 | ↓ -17% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $10.49 | ↓ -2% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $11.45 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $12.89 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $14.23 | ↑ +33% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $14.23 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $14.93 | ↑ +39% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $16.14 | ↑ +51% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $16.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $16.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $17.27 | ↑ +61% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17.48 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $17.88 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $19.56 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $21.62 | ↑ +102% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $33.13 | ↑ +209% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $63.84 | ↑ +496% |
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Cold agglutinin screen (arc) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $59.24 | $1.61 – $20.37 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $9.21 | $8.07 – $21.07 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8.43 | $5.81 – $24.47 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $311.74 | $8.07 – $68.60 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $10.71 | $8.07 – $17.88 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $41.23 | $8.07 – $67.15 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $30.10 | $5.13 – $46.35 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $10.71 | $8.07 – $39.22 |