Blood Culture Test at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$220.14
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.
$789.00
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.
$10.32 with Scan Health Plan vs $789.00 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 |
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| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.38 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.38 | ↓ -94% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.88 | ↓ -94% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $12.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.14 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.14 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.82 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $18.82 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $41.22 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $42.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $42.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $64.40 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $110.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $114.55 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $134.13 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $164.18 | ↓ -25% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $197.25 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $197.25 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $224.89 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $512.85 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $631.20 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $686.43 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $789.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Blood Culture Test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $257.11 | $10.32 – $32.20 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.30 | $2.06 – $30.07 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $417.18 | $10.11 – $84.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $285.05 | $10.32 – $36.26 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $273.73 | $10.32 – $196.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $261.08 | $10.32 – $39.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $221.86 | $10.32 – $156.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $219.47 | $10.32 – $165.11 |