Culture aerobic additional method definitive id each at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$211.40
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.
$604.00
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.
$8.08 with Aetna vs $77.00 with Blue Shield — 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 | $8.08 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8.24 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8.89 | ↓ -96% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $10.50 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $11.46 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $12.91 | ↓ -94% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $14.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $14.23 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $14.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $16.16 | ↓ -92% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $16.16 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $16.16 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $17.29 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $21.17 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $21.56 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $23.03 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $25.85 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $50.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $77.00 | ↓ -64% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $115.20 | $2.42 – $21.43 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $43.52 | $1.62 – $24.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $308.04 | $7.92 – $65.89 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $119.84 | $6.46 – $20.81 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $57.28 | $6.65 – $19.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $63.12 | $5.38 – $24.47 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $126.14 | $4.47 – $23.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $124.78 | $4.47 – $23.21 |