Place right device/marker pros at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$2,632.70
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.
$7,522.00
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.
$1,780.22 with Aetna vs $12,560.00 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 | $1,780.22 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,815.83 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,865.10 | ↓ -29% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,958.25 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,100.64 | ↓ -20% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $2,314.29 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,581.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $2,581.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $2,654.00 | ↑ +1% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $2,719.00 | ↑ +3% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,006.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,293.41 | ↑ +25% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $3,809.68 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos | $4,385.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Healthnet | Ppo/Epo | $4,385.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,589.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $5,149.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $10,542.00 | ↑ +300% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $11,297.00 | ↑ +329% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $12,560.00 | ↑ +377% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,635.37 | $132.17 – $3,526.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,617.74 | $132.17 – $3,482.32 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,773.27 | $1,780.22 – $23,444.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,746.66 | $132.17 – $2,295.72 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,285.26 | $179.90 – $1,618.96 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $2,261.88 | $132.17 – $2,196.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,261.92 | $132.17 – $4,523.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $2,366.88 | $1,513.19 – $16,826.00 |