CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear without contrast at Northridge Hospital Medical Center

18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,985.65

Cash price

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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.

$7,117.00

Gross charge

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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.

$135.12 with Humana vs $7,117.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Humana Commercial|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
MHN Commercial|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
HCLA Medicare|Preferred IPA $135.12 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
LA Care Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
United Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Central Health Plan Commercial|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Central Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Other Plans $135.12 ↓ -93%
LA Care Commercial|All Plans $168.90 ↓ -91%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 $218.52 ↓ -89%
HCLA Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 $218.52 ↓ -89%
Gold Coast Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $218.52 ↓ -89%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $218.52 ↓ -89%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $218.52 ↓ -89%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $245.18 ↓ -88%
United Commercial|HMO $245.18 ↓ -88%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $293.04 ↓ -85%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $293.04 ↓ -85%
Molina Medicaid|< 21 $305.93 ↓ -85%
Molina Medicaid|> 21 $305.93 ↓ -85%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|< 21 $404.47 ↓ -80%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|> 21 $404.47 ↓ -80%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $693.79 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $693.79 ↓ -65%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $693.79 ↓ -65%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Vivity $1,001.00 ↓ -50%
LA Care Medicaid|All Plans $1,003.01 ↓ -49%
Blue Shield CA Medicaid|All Plans $1,092.60 ↓ -45%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $1,383.00 ↓ -30%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $1,617.00 ↓ -19%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $1,617.00 ↓ -19%
DHR Medicaid|> 21 $1,779.25 ↓ -10%
DHR Medicaid|< 21 $1,779.25 ↓ -10%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $1,895.00 ↓ -5%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|BlueShield Promise $4,626.05 ↑ +133%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $5,693.60 ↑ +187%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $6,191.79 ↑ +212%
US Behavioral Health Commercial|All Plans $7,117.00 ↑ +258%

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CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear without contrast at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $1,839.17 $135.12 – $3,275.22
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $832.32 $21.27 – $1,436.57
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $3,002.88 $140.89 – $1,099.52
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $1,296.84 $135.12 – $2,455.88
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $5,129.54 $218.52 – $1,509.20
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $1,028.22 $125.82 – $1,768.00
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $1,129.33 $135.12 – $2,435.20
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $1,117.15 $135.12 – $2,404.76

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