Assay of feces/urobilinogen at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center

18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

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Gross charge

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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.

$16.80 with Aetna vs $118.87 with Blue Shield — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $16.80
Humana Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan $17.14
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $18.48
La Care Health Plan Exchange $21.84
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $23.83
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $26.83
Cigna Ppo $29.59
Cigna Oap Hmo/Pos $29.59
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $31.08
Aetna All Commercial Plans $32.71
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $33.29
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $33.60
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $33.60
First Health/Coventry Coventry All Commercial Plans $33.60
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $35.56
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $35.95
Blue Shield Hmo/Ppo/Epo $39.91
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $75.85
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $118.87

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Assay of feces/urobilinogen at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma not published $16.46 – $98.54
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa not published $16.80 – $124.53
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka not published $16.80 – $141.21
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg not published $16.80 – $56.33
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna not published $141.54 – $141.54
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa not published $16.46 – $105.94
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo not published $10.64 – $33.60
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center Burbank not published $16.80 – $73.03

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