Methyldopate hcl injection at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$13.68
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.
$49.00
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.
$9.80 with Healthcare Partners vs $222.30 with Blue Shield CA — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare Partners | Medicare|All Plans | $9.80 | ↓ -28% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.25 | ↓ -10% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.25 | ↓ -10% |
| Healthcare Partners | Commercial|All Plans | $13.72 | ↑ +0% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $14.70 | ↑ +7% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $14.70 | ↑ +7% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.56 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.56 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.50 | ↑ +101% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $29.76 | ↑ +118% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $31.85 | ↑ +133% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $35.52 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $37.64 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $38.71 | ↑ +183% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.20 | ↑ +187% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.84 | ↑ +191% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $42.63 | ↑ +212% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.00 | ↑ +251% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $48.00 | ↑ +251% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $49.00 | ↑ +258% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $204.07 | ↑ +1392% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $222.30 | ↑ +1525% |
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Methyldopate hcl injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $71.24 | $25.44 – $82.50 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $45.87 | $21.32 – $140.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $96.82 | $15.94 – $98.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $45.00 | $20.41 – $120.84 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $33.47 | $17.25 – $222.30 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $53.32 | $24.80 – $222.30 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $22.98 | $13.80 – $222.30 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $41.86 | $31.57 – $100.00 |