Bactericidal level serum at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$159.59
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.
$572.00
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.
$15.02 with Scan Health Plan vs $572.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $15.02 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $18.02 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.02 | ↓ -89% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $18.77 | ↓ -88% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.16 | ↓ -88% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $19.16 | ↓ -88% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $19.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.16 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.14 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.14 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.69 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.82 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.38 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $27.38 | ↓ -83% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $61.32 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.01 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $62.01 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $62.01 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $80.08 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $95.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $97.24 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $129.87 | ↓ -19% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $143.00 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $143.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $186.14 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $254.96 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $371.80 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $457.60 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $497.64 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $572.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Bactericidal level serum at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $25.01 | $15.02 – $36.80 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $8.09 | $9.94 – $14.83 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $5.77 | $1.64 – $33.25 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $4.28 | $5.20 – $33.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $14.72 – $95.52 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $15.02 – $120.71 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $15.02 – $136.88 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $15.02 – $59.72 |