CT thoracic spine without contrast at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$1,405.60
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.
$4,016.00
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 $1,053.95 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 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $137.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $140.87 | ↓ -90% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $147.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $158.66 | ↓ -89% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $174.80 | ↓ -88% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $179.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $179.33 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $248.76 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $287.75 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $440.48 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $522.22 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $556.65 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $774.72 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,010.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $1,053.95 | ↓ -25% |
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CT thoracic spine without contrast at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,678.42 | $135.12 – $2,988.96 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,196.61 | $21.27 – $2,039.91 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,058.18 | $140.89 – $1,369.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,010.56 | $135.12 – $5,239.08 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $4,496.84 | $178.84 – $1,455.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,426.48 | $113.94 – $1,768.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,679.89 | $135.12 – $3,622.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,661.78 | $135.12 – $3,577.12 |