Biotinidase - quest at Banner Lassen Medical Center
1800 Spring Ridge Drive, Susanville, CA · Banner Health · · NPI 1538197231
$11.27
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.
$18.00
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.
$3.37 with Anthem Blue Cross California vs $22.87 with Partnership HealthPlan of 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 |
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| Anthem Blue Cross California | Medicare Advantage | $3.37 | ↓ -70% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $7.38 | ↓ -35% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $7.38 | ↓ -35% |
| Network Providers, LLC | California Prison Health Care Services (CPHCS) | $9.59 | ↓ -15% |
| Imperial Health Plan of California, Inc | Medi-Medi/Medicare Advantage | $9.96 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield of California | CalPERS PPO | $15.66 | ↑ +39% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $16.20 | ↑ +44% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $16.74 | ↑ +49% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $17.10 | ↑ +52% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $17.28 | ↑ +53% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $17.28 | ↑ +53% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $17.28 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $17.46 | ↑ +55% |
| Health Net | Commercial Exchange | $17.46 | ↑ +55% |
| Partnership HealthPlan of CA | Partnership Medi-Cal | $22.87 | ↑ +103% |
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Biotinidase - quest at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $12.58 | $14.69 – $43.49 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $11.52 | $7.93 – $51.12 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $8.17 | $11.00 – $48.50 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $8.08 | $11.00 – $48.50 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $10.85 | $1.90 – $15.20 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $6.18 | $3.84 – $18.25 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $22.85 | $13.86 – $28.79 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $10.82 | $6.09 – $19.88 |