Apply halo w/removal cranial at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$1,245.30
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.
$3,558.00
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.
$1,142.00 with Blue Shield vs $6,312.00 with Blue Cross — 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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| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,311.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,485.00 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,068.15 | ↑ +66% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,109.51 | ↑ +69% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,166.75 | ↑ +74% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,274.96 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,440.38 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↑ +111% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $2,688.59 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,812.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,126.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,826.07 | ↑ +207% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $4,425.83 | ↑ +255% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $4,751.00 | ↑ +282% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $4,875.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $6,312.00 | ↑ +407% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,011.33 | $1,687.00 – $2,211.17 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,038.36 | $2,283.13 – $7,745.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,179.63 | $2,068.15 – $9,008.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $958.80 | $2,166.52 – $5,330.31 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $2,286.33 | $5,981.00 – $36,398.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,567.34 | $1,716.00 – $5,318.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,831.68 | $1,200.00 – $5,171.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $1,933.40 | $1,142.00 – $4,776.00 |