Fibrinogen activity at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$90.30
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.
$258.00
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.
$9.72 with Aetna vs $80.95 with Blue Shield — 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.72 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.91 | ↓ -89% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $10.69 | ↓ -88% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $12.64 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $13.79 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $15.53 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $17.06 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $17.06 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Aco Other Commercial Plan | $17.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $17.98 | ↓ -80% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $19.44 | ↓ -78% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $19.44 | ↓ -78% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $19.44 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $20.80 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $22.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $49.74 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $53.15 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $53.41 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $59.35 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $80.95 | ↓ -10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Fibrinogen activity at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $197.10 | $9.72 – $30.33 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.88 | $1.94 – $12.59 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $194.31 | $9.53 – $68.92 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $114.71 | $7.02 – $25.05 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $153.18 | $9.72 – $225.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $105.06 | $3.79 – $29.45 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $108.71 | $9.72 – $88.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $107.54 | $9.72 – $87.69 |