Diagnostic anoscopy at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$308.35
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.
$881.00
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.
$353.00 with Blue Shield vs $3,623.00 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 | $353.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $574.56 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $586.05 | ↑ +90% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $601.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $601.96 | ↑ +95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $632.02 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $677.97 | ↑ +120% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $746.93 | ↑ +142% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $810.00 | ↑ +163% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $868.00 | ↑ +181% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $965.00 | ↑ +213% |
| Healthnet | Ppo/Epo | $970.00 | ↑ +215% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos | $970.00 | ↑ +215% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $1,062.94 | ↑ +245% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,229.56 | ↑ +299% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,311.00 | ↑ +325% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,485.00 | ↑ +382% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,581.00 | ↑ +737% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $2,581.00 | ↑ +737% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $3,623.00 | ↑ +1075% |
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Diagnostic anoscopy at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $269.28 | $593.00 – $1,687.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $999.60 | $634.29 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $228.48 | $574.56 – $8,018.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $200.43 | $601.89 – $3,982.87 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $451.35 | $621.60 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $391.20 | $488.38 – $1,597.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $139.65 | $353.00 – $2,594.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $248.64 | $488.38 – $1,293.00 |