CT scan, head (with and without contrast)
Facility: Adventist Health White Memorial
Billing Code: 70470 (CPT)
This hospital's typical commercial price is $248 compared to the $244 fair price benchmark.
3-Star CMS clinical quality rating paired with 1.02× fair market pricing.
Highest price of the 9 CA hospitals we have prices for — worth calling around.
Black dot = this hospital, among the 9 CA hospitals with a price for this procedure. Full list below.
Note: The cash price looks unusually high next to the insurance price — it may be the full list price, not a real cash discount. Call to confirm the self-pay rate.
A fair price for a CT scan, head (with and without contrast) is about $244 (about 1.4× the $179 Medicare rate). Adventist Health White Memorial charges insurers about $248, or about $2,045 in cash — about the fair price. Located in Los Angeles, CA.
What each insurance company pays
Which insurers have negotiated a price with this hospital for this procedure — and which haven’t.
6 of 6 major insurers have a published price at this hospital
Crossed out = this hospital hasn’t published a negotiated price for that insurer for this procedure. It doesn’t necessarily mean they aren’t accepted — ask your insurer.
| Insurance company | Price range | vs. Medicare |
|---|---|---|
| UnitedHealthcaremajor | $226 - $5,680 | 126% |
| Blue Cross Blue Shieldmajor | $85 - $3,147 | 47% |
| Aetnamajor | $1,133 | 632% |
| Cignamajor | $1,536 | 857% |
| Humanamajor | $226 | 126% |
| Kaiser Permanentemajor | $4,658 | 2599% |
| Bright Health | $259 | 145% |
| Health Net | $295 - $17,381 | 165% |
| Molina | $226 - $305 | 126% |
| + 39 smaller / regional plans | $192 - $9,656 |
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Other Procedures at Adventist Health White Memorial
Compare: CT scan, head (with and without contrast) at other CA hospitals
- Saint Agnes Medical Center · Fresno $54
- Mayers Memorial Hospital · Fall River Mills $61
- Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hosp & Trauma Ctr · San Francisco $63
- Natividad Medical Center · Salinas $73
- Adventist Health Vallejo · Vallejo $79
- Adventist Health Mendocino Coast · Fort Bragg $87
- Trinity Hospital · Weaverville $98
- Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA · Los Angeles $98
Insurance negotiated median for the same procedure, sorted lowest first.
Audit a Bill or Quote at Adventist Health White Memorial (Zero PHI Required)
Statutory 501(r) AGB Cap Limits Bill to $4,124
At 274% FPL (201%–400% FPL tier), 26 U.S.C. § 501(r)(5) caps FAP-eligible bills at Amounts Generally Billed (36.3% of gross = $4,124).
Self-Pay Cash Rate ($2,045) Beats Your Bill
Adventist Health White Memorial's published 45 CFR § 180 self-pay cash rate is $2,045 (vs. $248 commercial insurer median). Ask billing to reclassify the visit to prompt-pay self-pay if it beats your deductible.
Negotiate Toward $244 Fair BaseRate ($179 Medicare)
Your bill ($11,360) is $11,116 above the denoised Fair BaseRate ($244) and 63.5× the $179 Medicare rate.
Clinical Quality, Patient Experience & Infection Benchmarks
Source: CMS Hospital Care Compare. Clinical quality metrics summarize historical facility-wide cohorts and are not medical advice for individual care decisions.
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Verify the Raw Data: Official Hospital MRF, CMS Medicare.gov & Federal Filings
Safe-Harbor Data Corrections: Parsed directly from public 45 CFR § 180 hospital filings, CMS Care Compare, and CMS HCRIS cost reports. Hospital compliance officers may submit updated MRF URLs or rate tables for verification.