Block tap inj(s) w/wo img bi at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$428.40
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.
$1,224.00
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 $4,875.00 with Cigna — 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 | ↑ +167% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,311.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,485.00 | ↑ +247% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↑ +513% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,812.00 | ↑ +556% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,126.00 | ↑ +630% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $3,623.00 | ↑ +746% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $4,751.00 | ↑ +1009% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $4,875.00 | ↑ +1038% |
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Block tap inj(s) w/wo img bi at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $176.17 | $130.38 – $308.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $828.24 | $1,687.00 – $11,153.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $509.02 | $370.44 – $1,221.08 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $503.53 | $154.88 – $1,358.28 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,836.11 | $2,747.00 – $9,175.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,362.32 | $2,335.00 – $5,198.77 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $12,534.78 | $5,981.00 – $25,998.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $245.49 | $175.35 – $701.40 |