Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$183.40
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.
$524.00
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.
$214.33 with Blue Shield vs $970.00 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 | $214.33 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $218.59 | ↑ +19% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $235.03 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $260.60 | ↑ +42% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $273.57 | ↑ +49% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $279.04 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $286.62 | ↑ +56% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $300.93 | ↑ +64% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $322.81 | ↑ +76% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $355.64 | ↑ +94% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $506.11 | ↑ +176% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $585.44 | ↑ +219% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $601.00 | ↑ +228% |
| Healthnet | Ppo/Epo | $970.00 | ↑ +429% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos | $970.00 | ↑ +429% |
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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $420.48 | $68.09 – $1,951.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $298.17 | $42.14 – $449.11 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $442.68 | $286.64 – $292.49 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $493.92 | $57.17 – $995.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $339.00 | $32.86 – $124.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $452.37 | $57.17 – $807.80 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $243.38 | $57.17 – $437.06 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $240.76 | $57.17 – $437.06 |