Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at Northridge Hospital Medical Center
18300 Roscoe Blvd, Northridge, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1417089350
$101.28
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.
$363.00
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.
$4.76 with Scan Health Plan vs $183.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| MHN | Commercial|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicare|Preferred IPA | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.76 | ↓ -95% |
| Gold Coast Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.93 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA > 21 | $4.93 | ↓ -95% |
| HCLA | Medicaid|Preferred IPA < 21 | $4.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.93 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.93 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.71 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.71 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Commercial|All Plans | $5.95 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.90 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.90 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.08 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.08 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.67 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $8.67 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.79 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $18.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $18.98 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.65 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $25.62 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.11 | ↓ -69% |
| DHR | Medicaid|< 21 | $45.75 | ↓ -55% |
| DHR | Medicaid|> 21 | $45.75 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Vivity | $51.49 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.79 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $101.08 | ↓ -0% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|BlueShield Promise | $118.95 | ↑ +17% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $146.40 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $159.21 | ↑ +57% |
| US Behavioral Health | Commercial|All Plans | $183.00 | ↑ +81% |
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Potassium serum/plasma/whole blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.89 | $4.76 – $14.86 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $24.41 | $0.95 – $8.73 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $169.32 | $4.66 – $37.87 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $85.60 | $4.76 – $14.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $78.59 | $4.76 – $75.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $78.40 | $4.05 – $14.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $210.36 | $4.76 – $31.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $208.09 | $4.76 – $30.81 |