Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$17.58
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.
$63.00
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.
$1.55 with Healthcare Partners vs $63.00 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 | $1.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $1.55 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $2.21 | ↓ -87% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $2.21 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.96 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.96 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.09 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.09 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.68 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.68 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $4.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4.80 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.80 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.95 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.37 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.37 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $6.78 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $8.89 | ↓ -49% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.14 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.05 | ↓ -37% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.75 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.75 | ↓ -10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $27.72 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.72 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $40.95 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $54.81 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Fluorouracil 50 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $40.74 | $2.67 – $25.50 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $132.26 | $3.35 – $61.74 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $24.70 | $2.21 – $61.74 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $103.14 | $2.21 – $50.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $23.86 | $2.94 – $49.77 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $407.47 | $2.71 – $4.75 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $407.47 | $3.23 – $4.75 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $32.93 | $3.22 – $51.66 |