Chloramphenicol sodium injec at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$8.65
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.
$31.00
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.
$5.20 with Healthcare Partners vs $265.55 with Blue Shield CA — 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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| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $5.20 | ↓ -40% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.50 | ↓ -25% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.50 | ↓ -25% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $7.28 | ↓ -16% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $7.80 | ↓ -10% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $7.80 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11.44 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.44 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.01 | ↑ +62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $16.90 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $19.17 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $20.54 | ↑ +137% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.62 | ↑ +162% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.00 | ↑ +201% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $119.34 | ↑ +1280% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $265.55 | ↑ +2970% |
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Chloramphenicol sodium injec at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $7.56 – $91.35 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $14.58 – $54.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $72.62 | $8.12 – $141.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $28.62 | $10.40 – $141.42 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $39.46 | $9.06 – $125.28 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $18.32 | $9.66 – $265.55 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $31.40 | $16.08 – $123.22 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $56.02 | $5.79 – $126.22 |