Brain image 4+ views at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$1,045.42
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.
$3,747.00
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.
$192.38 with Kaiser vs $3,747.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $192.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $192.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $192.38 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $192.38 | ↓ -82% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $192.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $255.87 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $255.87 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $257.98 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $257.98 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $269.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $269.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $608.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $608.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $608.89 | ↓ -42% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -35% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $854.91 | ↓ -18% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $883.02 | ↓ -16% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $936.75 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $936.75 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $961.90 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $1,066.71 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,101.15 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,101.15 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,528.85 | ↑ +46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,627.88 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,627.88 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,094.14 | ↑ +100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $2,435.55 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,997.60 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,259.89 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,747.00 | ↑ +258% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,174.83 | $192.38 – $2,201.08 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $470.06 | $192.38 – $2,565.73 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $464.99 | $192.38 – $2,565.73 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $361.04 | $144.48 – $688.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $737.48 | $192.38 – $656.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $411.28 | $173.14 – $1,771.23 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $913.32 | $173.14 – $2,124.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $710.06 | $192.38 – $2,561.08 |