Myelography neck spine at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$792.05
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.
$2,263.00
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.
$180.94 with Aetna vs $2,710.40 with Cigna — 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 | Aco Other Commercial Plan | $180.94 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $227.77 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $812.52 | ↑ +3% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $828.68 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $850.71 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $891.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $987.95 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,008.25 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,028.42 | ↑ +30% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,056.32 | ↑ +33% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,089.31 | ↑ +38% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,089.31 | ↑ +38% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,109.08 | ↑ +40% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,189.72 | ↑ +50% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $1,310.73 | ↑ +65% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $1,865.27 | ↑ +135% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $2,157.66 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $2,710.40 | ↑ +242% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,710.40 | ↑ +242% |
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Myelography neck spine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $844.47 | $189.99 – $3,463.45 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,375.63 | $144.46 – $2,034.09 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,362.69 | $125.58 – $3,751.09 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,348.00 | $125.58 – $3,751.09 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,421.08 | $807.98 – $1,393.90 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,308.89 | $125.58 – $1,036.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,277.76 | $570.12 – $1,865.27 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,972.45 | $125.58 – $873.40 |