Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe clostridium difficile toxin gene(s) at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$147.04
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.
$527.00
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.
$28.64 with HCLA vs $527.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $28.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $28.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $28.64 | ↓ -81% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $28.64 | ↓ -81% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $28.64 | ↓ -81% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $37.27 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.09 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.09 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.41 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.41 | ↓ -74% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $40.10 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $40.10 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.72 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $44.72 | ↓ -70% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $46.59 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.97 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $67.97 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $73.78 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.59 | ↓ -39% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $131.46 | ↓ -11% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $131.75 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $131.75 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $143.20 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $144.87 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $144.87 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $144.87 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $342.55 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $416.33 | ↑ +183% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $421.60 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $458.49 | ↑ +212% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $484.84 | ↑ +230% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $527.00 | ↑ +258% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $527.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe clostridium difficile toxin gene(s) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $165.57 | $37.27 – $294.84 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $62.50 | $7.45 – $50.44 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $932.79 | $36.52 – $336.45 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $205.87 | $28.64 – $96.05 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $271.73 | $28.64 – $91.32 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $188.56 | $25.38 – $112.91 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $49.72 | $28.64 – $107.12 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $49.18 | $28.64 – $107.12 |