Bx breast pq tomo guide 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.

$1,528.00 with Blue Shield vs $11,827.00 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.

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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
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,528.00
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $3,511.00
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $3,758.00
Blue Shield Hmo/Ppo/Epo $4,179.00
Cigna Oap Hmo/Pos $4,776.00
Cigna Ppo $4,899.00
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $5,035.90
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $5,080.00
Humana Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan $5,136.62
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $5,276.01
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $5,539.49
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $5,751.00
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $5,942.28
La Care Health Plan Exchange $6,546.67
Healthnet Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan $7,332.00
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $9,316.42
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $10,776.83
Healthnet All Commercial Plans $11,827.00

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Bx breast pq tomo guide at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $1,714.40 $1,247.67 – $4,621.00
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $1,695.91 $1,218.24 – $4,512.00
St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton Stockton $4,708.41 $305.13 – $1,453.00
Mercy Medical Center Merced Merced $4,576.81 $1,262.58 – $3,826.00
California Hospital Medical Center Los Angeles $6,331.68 $3,263.75 – $10,313.45
Mercy San Juan Medical Center Carmichael $5,225.18 $2,097.70 – $15,828.10
Mercy General Hospital Sacramento $4,157.26 $4,745.23 – $19,070.00
Mercy Hospital of Folsom Folsom $7,418.23 $2,097.70 – $19,070.00

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