Assay of prostaglandin at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$90.68
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.
$325.00
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.
$38.97 with Gold Coast Health Plan vs $325.00 with US Behavioral Health — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.97 | ↓ -57% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -57% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -57% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $45.05 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $45.05 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $45.50 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.12 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.12 | ↓ -45% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $52.21 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.26 | ↓ -42% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $54.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $54.56 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.25 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.16 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $76.16 | ↓ -16% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $81.25 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $81.25 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $103.01 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $103.01 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $103.01 | ↑ +14% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $124.71 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $194.85 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $211.25 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $256.75 | ↑ +183% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $260.00 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $282.75 | ↑ +212% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $299.00 | ↑ +230% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $325.00 | ↑ +258% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $325.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Assay of prostaglandin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $203.45 | $8.35 – $315.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $139.10 | $38.97 – $112.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $216.45 | $38.97 – $318.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $127.40 | $31.05 – $126.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $252.85 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $164.78 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $189.80 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $40.93 – $203.73 |