Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$259.70
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.
$742.00
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.
$76.39 with Blue Shield vs $970.00 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 | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $76.39 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $81.43 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $113.33 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $147.74 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $262.05 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $424.83 | ↑ +64% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $433.32 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $445.08 | ↑ +71% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $467.31 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $501.29 | ↑ +93% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $552.28 | ↑ +113% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $601.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $785.93 | ↑ +203% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $909.13 | ↑ +250% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $970.00 | ↑ +274% |
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Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $425.74 | $108.73 – $834.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,228.79 | $149.91 – $11,311.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $453.55 | $149.91 – $667.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $984.32 | $149.91 – $9,050.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $322.77 | $149.91 – $843.90 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $310.12 | $149.91 – $796.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $428.91 | $424.83 – $1,333.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $271.07 | $97.02 – $1,266.00 |