Apply surf ldr radionuclide at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$474.60
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.
$1,356.00
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.
$76.16 with Blue Shield vs $280.83 with Healthnet — 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 | $76.16 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $77.68 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $83.52 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $92.61 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $95.88 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Aco Other Commercial Plan | $97.13 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $122.28 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $131.23 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $133.85 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $137.48 | ↓ -71% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $144.35 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $154.85 | ↓ -67% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $170.60 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $242.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $280.83 | ↓ -41% |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $133.59 | $82.35 – $278.26 |
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| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $334.54 | $73.55 – $778.00 |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center | Mission Hills | $162.05 | $39.38 – $242.77 |
| Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance | Torrance | $342.30 | $64.26 – $242.77 |
| Providence Saint John's Health Center | Santa Monica | $328.30 | $76.16 – $242.77 |