Kidney imaging morphology at Banner Lassen Medical Center
1800 Spring Ridge Drive, Susanville, CA · Banner Health · · NPI 1538197231
$403.27
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.
$601.00
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.
$80.37 with Anthem Blue Cross California vs $582.97 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 | $80.37 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership HealthPlan of CA | Partnership Medi-Cal | $128.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Banner Health | Banner Choice Plus/Banner Select | $246.41 | ↓ -39% |
| United Healthcare | UHC Medicare Advantage | $246.41 | ↓ -39% |
| Network Providers, LLC | California Prison Health Care Services (CPHCS) | $320.33 | ↓ -21% |
| Imperial Health Plan of California, Inc | Medi-Medi/Medicare Advantage | $332.65 | ↓ -18% |
| Blue Shield of California | CalPERS PPO | $522.87 | ↑ +30% |
| Multiplan | Commercial | $540.90 | ↑ +34% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $558.93 | ↑ +39% |
| Cigna Healthcare & Life Insurance Company – WY | Commercial | $570.95 | ↑ +42% |
| Coventry | Commercial | $576.96 | ↑ +43% |
| Coventry | Workers Comp | $576.96 | ↑ +43% |
| First Health | Medical Rental | $576.96 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicare | $582.97 | ↑ +45% |
| Health Net | Commercial Exchange | $582.97 | ↑ +45% |
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Kidney imaging morphology at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,864.47 | $111.73 – $1,986.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $327.60 | $111.73 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $324.07 | $111.73 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,458.14 | $111.73 – $6,856.02 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $556.20 | $111.73 – $508.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $2,960.10 | $111.73 – $6,158.70 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,203.33 | $111.73 – $4,313.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $636.65 | $269.48 – $1,439.81 |