Bronchial challenge at Banner Lassen Medical Center
1800 Spring Ridge Drive, Susanville, CA · Banner Health · · NPI 1538197231
$380.26
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.
$699.00
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.
$62.28 with Anthem Blue Cross California vs $678.03 with Health Net — 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 | $62.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $286.59 | ↓ -25% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $286.59 | ↓ -25% |
| Network Providers, LLC | California Prison Health Care Services (CPHCS) | $372.57 | ↓ -2% |
| Imperial Health Plan of California, Inc | Medi-Medi/Medicare Advantage | $386.90 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield of California | CalPERS PPO | $608.13 | ↑ +60% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $629.10 | ↑ +65% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $650.07 | ↑ +71% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $664.05 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $671.04 | ↑ +76% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $671.04 | ↑ +76% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $671.04 | ↑ +76% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $678.03 | ↑ +78% |
| Health Net | Commercial Exchange | $678.03 | ↑ +78% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Bronchial challenge at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,361.90 | $395.66 – $3,118.36 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $994.34 | $314.07 – $1,189.72 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,311.24 | $395.66 – $3,278.10 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $970.02 | $479.94 – $599.28 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $441.59 | $315.42 – $1,261.68 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $697.09 | $215.04 – $878.08 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $642.21 | $332.55 – $1,234.53 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $607.67 | $395.66 – $2,178.00 |