The cash price for scheduled care, from the people who pay it at the counter.
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This is what a member sees. Your plan funds the card; we find, book and pay. $75 per booked episode, $5 per card-only payment, no per-member fee.
Operator fee schedule, pending final numbersFour steps, shown in the product
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thecashprice.com, Oct 9, 2026 Search a service and a ZIP
The member types a service in plain words. We match it to its billing code and read every posted and phone-confirmed price nearby.
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Result card, MRI lumbar spine near 85004, Oct 9, 2026 Compare cash prices
Each price says where it came from and when. The hospital network rate sits beside it when the hospital publishes one.
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Call request, Oct 9, 2026 Book through the plan
We call the office, confirm the price and the date, and text the member. Nothing is shown as available until the office says so.
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Pay with the plan-funded card
The member pays at the counter with a card the plan funds. The plan gets the receipt and a claim-ready record.
Phoenix: posted cash next to the hospital's own network rates
Six of the ten services on the Phoenix sheet. The network rate is Banner Estrella Medical Center's rate for the named payer, from its machine-readable file. Labs and therapy are here on purpose: cash wins on access there, not price. 51 priced rows across 30 providers so far.
| Service | CPT | Posted by | Setting | Cash price | Banner Cigna rate | Banner UHC rate | Medicare | Cash vs Medicare | Source, accessed |
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| MRI lower back | 72148 | SimonMed Imaging | Imaging center | $458 | $1,618 | $543.87 | $191.72 | 239% of MPFS global | Tendo (MDsave), Oct 7 |
| CT abdomen and pelvis | 74177 | Sun Radiology | Imaging center | $386 | $1,218 | $803.54 | $300.27 | 129% of MPFS global | Tendo (MDsave), Oct 7 |
| Colonoscopy | 45378 | ColonoscopyAssist | National program | $1,275 | $3,954 | $5,444 | $675.16 | 189% of ASC facility + physician (anesthesia not in the Medicare figure) | ColonoscopyAssist, Oct 7 |
| CBC | 85025 | Labcorp OnDemand | Lab | $29 | $16.92 | $11.65 | $7.77 | 373% of CLFS | Labcorp OnDemand, Oct 7 |
| New patient visit | 99203 | Denova Collaborative Health | Office | $139.99 | $257.62 | $198.38 | $117.57 | 119% of MPFS NF | Denova self-pay schedule, Oct 7 |
| Therapy session | 90837 | Thriveworks | Office | $135 to $195 | n/a | n/a | $167 | 81% to 117% of MPFS NF | Thriveworks, Oct 7 |
Send us 20 claims
Health plans, TPAs, reference-based-pricing vendors and health shares: send twenty recent claim lines for scheduled care (CPT, zip or NPI, allowed amount). We price each one against cash prices we can book today and send a side-by-side back within five business days.
At SIIA in Phoenix, Oct 11 to 13? Book 15 minutes.
Questions operators ask
The plan funds the card. Payments to providers draw on the plan's funds. Rivendell never holds plan assets in its own account. The funding structure is set out in the written agreement.
Who we are
Rivendell is a cash-pay health plan and third-party administrator in San Francisco. We run our own level-funded plan on this rail in California and pay for our members' scheduled care at the counter.
Every price here was posted by the provider, confirmed by us on the phone, or is marked as reference only. The Cash Price rents that rail to other plans.