Ghs plt ct-manual at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$46.60
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.
$167.00
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.
$3.83 with HCLA vs $167.00 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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| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $3.83 | ↓ -92% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.83 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.83 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.83 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $3.83 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.14 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.17 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.17 | ↓ -89% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.36 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.36 | ↓ -88% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $5.39 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.85 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7.85 | ↓ -83% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.58 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.74 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $17.74 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $17.74 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.15 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $23.38 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.39 | ↓ -39% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $41.75 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $41.75 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $47.82 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $68.54 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $93.89 | ↑ +101% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $108.55 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $133.60 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $145.29 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $167.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Ghs plt ct-manual at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $74.90 | $4.31 – $133.38 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $59.13 | $3.83 – $15.68 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $138.25 | $4.31 – $11.48 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $52.38 | $3.45 – $85.32 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $44.62 | $3.83 – $23.52 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $42.64 | $3.83 – $20.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $4.22 – $35.17 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $4.31 – $44.45 |