Cytopath smear other source at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$51.34
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.
$184.00
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.
$29.60 with United vs $229.15 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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| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↓ -42% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -39% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $38.90 | ↓ -24% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $45.83 | ↓ -11% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $45.83 | ↓ -11% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.83 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $45.83 | ↓ -11% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $45.83 | ↓ -11% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $46.00 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $46.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $53.43 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $60.95 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $60.95 | ↑ +19% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $61.46 | ↑ +20% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $61.46 | ↑ +20% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $64.16 | ↑ +25% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $64.16 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.58 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $85.80 | ↑ +67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $85.80 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $104.89 | ↑ +104% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $106.50 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $106.50 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $106.50 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $119.60 | ↑ +133% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $146.65 | ↑ +186% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $147.20 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $160.08 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $184.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $229.15 | ↑ +346% |
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Cytopath smear other source at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $42.05 | $25.92 – $124.87 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $146.37 | $38.98 – $45.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $40.98 | $15.92 – $60.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $41.56 | $22.00 – $135.24 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $41.11 | $22.00 – $135.24 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $97.92 | $41.07 – $49.66 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $238.68 | $37.20 – $56.31 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $44.30 | $7.76 – $62.07 |