APC 5521
Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
Level 1 Imaging without Contrast
Glendale, CA
See all hospitals reporting APC 5521 →Price type
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital’s median price of $849 is 756% above the median hospital's median price ($99), higher than 99% of the 739 hospitals reporting APC 5521. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Negotiated rates from the hospital’s own file: 7 payers, 15 plan rates. A facility fee, a professional fee, a per diem and a case rate are different bills, so each is listed on its own. Open a payer to see it across hospitals.
Filter by billing methodology
Filter by billing class
| # | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Cross Blue Shield anthem medicare managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $110 | $110 | — | — | 75 | $110 – $110 |
| 2 | UnitedHealthcare medicare managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $110 | $110 | — | — | 78 | $110 – $110 |
| 3 | Aetna medicare managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $110 | $110 | — | — | 66 | $110 – $110 |
| 4 | Blue Cross Blue Shield epn exchange facility · other · outpatient | $163 | $163 | — | — | 276 | $163 – $163 |
| 5 | First Health all commercial plans facility · other · outpatient | $176 | $176 | — | — | 1–10 | $176 – $176 |
| 6 | Blue Cross Blue Shield hmo/ppo facility · other · outpatient | $193 | $193 | — | — | 394 | $193 – $193 |
| 7 | Blue Cross Blue Shield anthem all commercial plans facility · other · outpatient | $369 | $369 | — | — | 950 | $369 – $369 |
| 8 | Optum medicare managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $453 | $453 | — | — | 12 | $453 – $453 |
| 9 | Aetna all commercial plans facility · other · outpatient | $455 | $455 | — | — | 117 | $455 – $455 |
| 10 | Cigna all commercial plans facility · other · outpatient | $485 | $485 | — | — | 126 | $485 – $485 |
| 11 | Blue Cross Blue Shield medicare managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $760 | $760 | — | — | 1–10 | $760 – $760 |
| 12 | Blue Cross Blue Shield promise medicaid managed care plan facility · other · outpatient | $906 | $906 | — | — | 1–10 | $906 – $906 |
| 13 | UnitedHealthcare all commercial plans facility · other · outpatient | $959 | $959 | — | — | 183 | $959 – $959 |
| 14 | Optum all medical group facility · other · outpatient | $1.0k | $1.0k | — | — | 22 | $1.0k – $1.0k |
| 15 | Kaiser all commercial plans facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges | $2.4k | $2.4k | — | — | 1–10 | $2.4k – $2.4k |
Last updated: Apr 1, 2026
See Imaging without contrast, level 1 pricing across every hospital in the network reporting it, or ask Claude or any MCP client directly — see how to connect.