Biliary endoscopy thru skin at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$2,128.70
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.
$6,082.00
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.
$1,747.00 with Blue Shield vs $17,818.53 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 | $1,747.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $3,950.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $3,950.00 | ↑ +86% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $4,013.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $4,300.00 | ↑ +102% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $4,781.00 | ↑ +125% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $6,312.00 | ↑ +197% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $6,544.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $7,332.00 | ↑ +244% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7,407.00 | ↑ +248% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8,326.41 | ↑ +291% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $8,492.94 | ↑ +299% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8,723.40 | ↑ +310% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9,159.06 | ↑ +330% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $9,825.04 | ↑ +362% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $10,824.34 | ↑ +408% |
| Healthnet | Ppo/Epo | $11,827.00 | ↑ +456% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos | $11,827.00 | ↑ +456% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $15,403.87 | ↑ +624% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $17,818.53 | ↑ +737% |
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Biliary endoscopy thru skin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,333.23 | $325.80 – $8,890.24 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,916.59 | $264.88 – $4,478.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,755.38 | $264.88 – $4,478.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,687.00 | $264.88 – $7,950.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,039.50 | $264.88 – $6,542.78 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,673.03 | $264.88 – $6,617.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,152.45 | $264.88 – $7,982.37 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $2,424.80 | $1,747.00 – $10,824.34 |