Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$1,351.00
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.
$3,860.00
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.
$1,142.00 with Blue Shield vs $7,176.00 with Healthnet — 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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| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,775.00 | ↑ +31% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,009.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,124.23 | ↑ +57% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,166.71 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,225.51 | ↑ +65% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,336.65 | ↑ +73% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,506.56 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,594.00 | ↑ +92% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $2,594.00 | ↑ +92% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↑ +94% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $2,761.50 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,808.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,123.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $3,855.00 | ↑ +185% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,929.83 | ↑ +191% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $4,449.00 | ↑ +229% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $4,545.85 | ↑ +236% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $7,176.00 | ↑ +431% |
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Biopsy bone trocar/needle superficial at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $833.52 | $120.34 – $3,763.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,698.31 | $97.84 – $3,305.54 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,851.03 | $97.84 – $2,916.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,743.70 | $97.84 – $3,608.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,724.90 | $97.84 – $2,058.68 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,972.17 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,381.01 | $2,124.23 – $9,858.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,097.51 | $97.84 – $1,813.00 |