Macroscopic exam arthropod at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$50.78
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.
$182.00
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.
$3.80 with HCLA vs $182.00 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 | $3.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -93% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -93% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.27 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.05 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.05 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.10 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.10 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.12 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.32 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.32 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $5.34 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $7.80 | ↓ -85% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.44 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $17.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $17.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $25.48 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.94 | ↓ -39% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $45.50 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $45.50 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $47.38 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.90 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $93.01 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $118.30 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $145.60 | ↑ +187% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $158.34 | ↑ +212% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $182.00 | ↑ +258% |
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Macroscopic exam arthropod at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $32.96 | $3.41 – $75.46 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7.12 | $3.80 – $10.47 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $30.19 | $3.41 – $75.46 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $59.91 | $3.80 – $75.46 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $76.85 | $3.80 – $28.52 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $63.54 | $3.42 – $103.49 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $78.26 | $3.42 – $145.60 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $158.90 | $4.27 – $24.97 |