Blood typing patient serum at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$21.18
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.
$60.50
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.
$23.18 with Blue Cross vs $162.37 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 Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $23.18 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $24.91 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $25.36 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $26.10 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $27.09 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $28.78 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $28.78 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $30.41 | ↑ +44% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $32.68 | ↑ +54% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $32.68 | ↑ +54% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $32.68 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $59.73 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $75.87 | ↑ +258% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $77.39 | ↑ +265% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $83.46 | ↑ +294% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $90.57 | ↑ +328% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $98.64 | ↑ +366% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $140.37 | ↑ +563% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $162.37 | ↑ +667% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $71.28 | $3.27 – $99.91 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $35.30 | $9.81 – $51.94 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $15.59 | $9.81 – $53.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $28.89 | $9.37 – $53.00 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $34.40 | $9.81 – $272.65 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $38.70 | $6.84 – $88.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $96.25 | $19.94 – $140.37 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $35.19 | $9.81 – $107.25 |