Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$15.07
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.
$54.00
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.
$3.63 with Healthcare Partners vs $54.00 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 |
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| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $3.63 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $3.63 | ↓ -76% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $3.64 | ↓ -76% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $3.64 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $3.91 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4.66 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.79 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.88 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.10 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.23 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.94 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.94 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.30 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.30 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7.90 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7.90 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.90 | ↓ -48% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.50 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.50 | ↓ -10% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.71 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.20 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $23.76 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.76 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.31 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $35.10 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $36.01 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $42.66 | ↑ +183% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $43.20 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $46.98 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $54.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $5.51 – $53.71 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $65.33 | $7.28 – $13.28 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $5.51 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $3.64 – $52.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $20.04 | $3.34 – $43.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $19.82 | $4.75 – $42.66 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $65.33 | $7.28 – $14.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $65.33 | $6.08 – $17.15 |