CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear without contrast at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$2,060.10
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.
$5,886.00
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.
$134.46 with Aetna vs $846.34 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 | $134.46 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $137.15 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $140.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $147.91 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $158.66 | ↓ -92% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $174.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $179.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $179.33 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $248.76 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $287.75 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $417.58 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $440.48 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $445.11 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $619.48 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $807.62 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $846.34 | ↓ -59% |
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CT orbit/sella/ or posterior outer inner or middle ear without contrast at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,839.17 | $135.12 – $3,275.22 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $832.32 | $21.27 – $1,436.57 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,002.88 | $140.89 – $1,099.52 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,296.84 | $135.12 – $2,455.88 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,129.54 | $218.52 – $1,509.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,028.22 | $125.82 – $1,768.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,129.33 | $135.12 – $2,435.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,117.15 | $135.12 – $2,404.76 |