Culture body fluid at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$199.77
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.
$716.00
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.
$8.62 with Scan Health Plan vs $716.00 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 | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $8.62 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.34 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.34 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.77 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $10.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.44 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.99 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.99 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.71 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15.71 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.47 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.55 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $35.55 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $35.55 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $53.85 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $95.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $100.24 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $121.72 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $136.87 | ↓ -31% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $179.00 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $179.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $187.48 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $465.40 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $572.80 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $622.92 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $716.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Culture body fluid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $281.20 | $8.62 – $26.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $62.50 | $1.72 – $17.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $382.50 | $8.45 – $70.24 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $521.74 | $8.62 – $22.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $129.21 | $8.62 – $147.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $477.85 | $5.56 – $26.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $223.72 | $8.62 – $24.76 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $221.31 | $8.62 – $24.76 |