Apheresis platelets at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$2,244.90
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.
$6,414.00
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.
$567.42 with Aetna vs $4,899.00 with Cigna — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $567.42 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $578.77 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $594.48 | ↓ -74% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $624.17 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $669.55 | ↓ -70% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $737.65 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $1,049.73 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.00 | ↓ -49% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,214.29 | ↓ -46% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,287.00 | ↓ -43% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,458.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $1,484.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $2,391.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,808.00 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,123.00 | ↑ +39% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $3,855.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $4,776.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $4,899.00 | ↑ +118% |
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Apheresis platelets at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $860.88 | $626.41 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $934.08 | $482.31 – $5,171.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,040.97 | $321.12 – $1,311.24 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,396.12 | $343.91 – $5,004.00 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $2,427.52 | $122.27 – $5,468.58 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $11,498.90 | $567.42 – $4,751.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $7,658.88 | $482.31 – $4,188.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $7,622.88 | $482.31 – $4,971.00 |