Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$5,014.45
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.
$14,327.00
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 $50,455.95 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 | $1,142.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,812.00 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,126.00 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $4,751.00 | ↓ -5% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $4,875.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $7,764.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $13,814.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15,641.00 | ↑ +212% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $23,577.55 | ↑ +370% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $24,049.10 | ↑ +380% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $24,701.69 | ↑ +393% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $25,935.30 | ↑ +417% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $27,821.13 | ↑ +455% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $30,650.81 | ↑ +511% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $43,618.46 | ↑ +770% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $50,455.95 | ↑ +906% |
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Insert hepatic shunt (tips) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,730.89 | $824.60 – $6,644.04 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $7,354.33 | $544.88 – $6,198.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $6,539.35 | $544.88 – $6,309.24 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $10,678.13 | $545.05 – $25,615.98 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $10,563.00 | $545.05 – $28,494.18 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $10,409.37 | $544.88 – $29,457.96 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $26,842.32 | $2,238.00 – $26,028.38 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $9,475.68 | $5,171.00 – $43,618.46 |