The Cash Priceby Rivendell

The cash price for scheduled care, from the people who pay it at the counter.

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Results appear here as each source answers.

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 numbers
01How it works

Four steps, shown in the product

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    Screenshot: Search
    Member search, Oct 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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    Screenshot: Result card
    Result card, Oct 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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    Screenshot: Booking confirmation
    Booking, Oct 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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    Screenshot: Card payment receipt
    Payment, Oct 2026

    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.

02Proof

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.

ServiceCPTPosted bySettingCash priceBanner Cigna rateBanner UHC rateMedicareCash vs MedicareSource, accessed
MRI lower back72148SimonMed ImagingImaging center$458$1,618$543.87$191.72239% of MPFS globalTendo (MDsave), Oct 7
CT abdomen and pelvis74177Sun RadiologyImaging center$386$1,218$803.54$300.27129% of MPFS globalTendo (MDsave), Oct 7
Colonoscopy45378ColonoscopyAssistNational program$1,275$3,954$5,444$675.16189% of ASC facility + physician (anesthesia not in the Medicare figure)ColonoscopyAssist, Oct 7
CBC85025Labcorp OnDemandLab$29$16.92$11.65$7.77373% of CLFSLabcorp OnDemand, Oct 7
New patient visit99203Denova Collaborative HealthOffice$139.99$257.62$198.38$117.57119% of MPFS NFDenova self-pay schedule, Oct 7
Therapy session90837ThriveworksOffice$135 to $195n/an/a$16781% to 117% of MPFS NFThriveworks, Oct 7
Network rates: Banner Estrella Medical Center CMS machine-readable file, last updated Sep 25, 2026, outpatient facility rowsPhoenix price sheet, compiled Oct 7, 2026. Full sheet and every source on /sources
03For operators

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.

Choose filesCSV, Excel or PDF. Up to 5 files, 25 MB each.

Remove member names and IDs before sending, or ask us for a BAA first. A person replies, not a sequence.

04Questions

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.

05About

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.

Photo: Heiki Riesenkampf
Heiki RiesenkampfFounder, Rivendell