CT colonography screening at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$829.85
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.
$2,371.00
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.
$306.88 with Aetna vs $2,936.10 with Blue Cross — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $306.88 | ↓ -63% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $313.02 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $321.51 | ↓ -61% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $337.57 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $362.12 | ↓ -56% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $398.95 | ↓ -52% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $567.73 | ↓ -32% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $656.73 | ↓ -21% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,033.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,033.60 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $1,379.24 | ↑ +66% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,470.18 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,474.15 | ↑ +78% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $2,046.13 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,667.55 | ↑ +221% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $2,936.10 | ↑ +254% |
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CT colonography screening at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $792.78 | $307.13 – $1,566.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $505.90 | $307.13 – $1,756.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $441.40 | $304.02 – $1,768.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,674.92 | $291.51 – $4,671.54 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $1,071.70 | $306.88 – $2,667.55 |
| Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro | San Pedro | $1,298.50 | $306.88 – $1,379.24 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $321.54 – $3,527.09 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $338.78 – $4,622.45 |