Closed tx orbit w/manipulj at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center

501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

$1,499.05

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What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge.

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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$4,283.00

Gross charge

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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 $5,149.00 with Blue Cross — same scan, same building. Share

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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.

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Payer
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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.

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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,747.00 ↑ +17%
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,995.60 ↑ +33%
Humana Medicare Managed Care Plan $2,035.51 ↑ +36%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $2,090.74 ↑ +39%
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $2,195.16 ↑ +46%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $2,354.77 ↑ +57%
La Care Health Plan Exchange $2,594.27 ↑ +73%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $2,654.00 ↑ +77%
Healthnet Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan $2,719.00 ↑ +81%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $3,006.00 ↑ +101%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $3,691.85 ↑ +146%
Cigna Oap Hmo/Pos $3,950.00 ↑ +164%
Cigna Ppo $3,950.00 ↑ +164%
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $4,013.00 ↑ +168%
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $4,270.57 ↑ +185%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $4,300.00 ↑ +187%
Healthnet Hmo/Pos $4,385.00 ↑ +193%
Healthnet Ppo/Epo $4,385.00 ↑ +193%
Blue Shield Hmo/Ppo/Epo $4,781.00 ↑ +219%
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $5,149.00 ↑ +243%

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Closed tx orbit w/manipulj at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $2,810.10 $2,090.93 – $4,657.00
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $3,124.77 $2,203.03 – $8,552.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $3,144.15 $1,995.60 – $8,925.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $1,705.95 $2,090.52 – $5,330.31
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $1,856.91 $6,127.00 – $36,398.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $3,006.96 $2,158.97 – $4,737.00
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo $2,240.64 $1,696.26 – $7,908.00
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center Tarzana $1,159.20 $1,747.00 – $3,969.00

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