Insert sq defib electrode at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$2,462.25
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.
$7,035.00
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.
$4,589.00 with Blue Shield vs $35,214.00 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 | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,589.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $4,776.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $4,899.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $7,971.00 | ↑ +224% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $10,542.00 | ↑ +328% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $10,643.53 | ↑ +332% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $10,856.40 | ↑ +341% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $11,151.00 | ↑ +353% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $11,282.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11,707.89 | ↑ +375% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $12,546.00 | ↑ +410% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $12,559.20 | ↑ +410% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $13,560.00 | ↑ +451% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $13,836.59 | ↑ +462% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,351.00 | ↑ +523% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $19,690.54 | ↑ +700% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $21,833.00 | ↑ +787% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $22,777.16 | ↑ +825% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $35,214.00 | ↑ +1330% |
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Insert sq defib electrode at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6,502.11 | $648.86 – $20,488.56 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,374.49 | $428.89 – $6,470.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $3,926.96 | $428.89 – $11,741.96 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $12,772.00 | $428.89 – $24,552.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $13,318.59 | $386.00 – $21,694.19 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $3,593.45 | $4,589.00 – $19,690.54 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $2,391.75 | $428.89 – $10,911.25 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $1,902.93 | $428.89 – $9,601.90 |