Lactic acid at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$98.70
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$282.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$11.57 with Aetna vs $101.75 with Blue Shield — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11.57 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $11.80 | ↓ -88% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $12.73 | ↓ -87% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $15.04 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $16.41 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $18.48 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $20.38 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $21.40 | ↓ -78% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $23.14 | ↓ -77% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $23.14 | ↓ -77% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $23.14 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $24.76 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $28.00 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $28.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $30.44 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $34.17 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $67.09 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $101.75 | ↑ +3% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Lactic acid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $69.21 | $2.15 – $30.70 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $23.79 | $2.31 – $15.53 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $122.40 | $11.34 – $87.16 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $133.11 | $3.98 – $29.81 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $185.15 | $11.57 – $28.36 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $121.92 | $2.15 – $35.04 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $378.42 | $3.98 – $33.25 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $374.34 | $3.98 – $33.25 |