Breath recording infant at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$875.00
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.
$2,500.00
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.
$244.93 with Blue Cross vs $1,027.08 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 | All Commercial Plans | $244.93 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $479.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $489.54 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $502.83 | ↓ -43% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $527.94 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $566.33 | ↓ -35% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $623.93 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $887.89 | ↑ +1% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,027.08 | ↑ +17% |
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Breath recording infant at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,032.37 | $108.06 – $1,838.46 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $779.53 | $78.03 – $2,794.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $2,979.90 | $245.42 – $887.89 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $546.71 | $78.03 – $1,341.60 |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center | Mission Hills | $1,469.30 | $194.32 – $887.89 |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance | Torrance | $2,296.70 | $192.62 – $887.89 |
| Providence Saint John's Health Center | Santa Monica | $560.70 | $249.93 – $887.89 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $296.99 – $513.13 |