Mucin synovial fluid at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center
18321 Clark St, Tarzana, CA · Providence · · NPI 1821250762
$6.65
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.
$19.00
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.
$5.86 with Aetna vs $55.86 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 | $5.86 | ↓ -12% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.98 | ↓ -10% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.45 | ↓ -3% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $7.62 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8.31 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $9.36 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $10.33 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $10.33 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $10.84 | ↑ +63% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $11.72 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $11.72 | ↑ +76% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $11.72 | ↑ +76% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $12.54 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $15.03 | ↑ +126% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $15.64 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $16.71 | ↑ +151% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $18.76 | ↑ +182% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $36.85 | ↑ +454% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $55.86 | ↑ +740% |
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Mucin synovial fluid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $86.29 | $5.86 – $153.66 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $176.04 | $5.86 – $316.54 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $22.47 | $5.21 – $68.06 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $17.88 | $5.21 – $65.60 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $31.90 | $5.21 – $67.24 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $22.47 | $5.21 – $82.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $23.62 | $5.21 – $68.06 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $5.74 – $47.87 |