Pr tube thoracostomy w/connection to drainage open at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$3,437.70
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.
$9,822.00
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 $4,385.00 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 | $1,142.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,807.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,024.63 | ↓ -41% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,047.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,065.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,121.16 | ↓ -38% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,227.09 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,389.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,581.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $2,581.00 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,624.00 | ↓ -24% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $2,632.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $2,719.00 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,812.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $3,126.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $3,623.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,745.56 | ↑ +9% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $4,332.70 | ↑ +26% |
| Healthnet | Ppo/Epo | $4,385.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos | $4,385.00 | ↑ +28% |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $607.95 | $185.50 – $2,776.00 |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $305.03 | $118.49 – $448.84 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $851.04 | $150.81 – $1,794.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,669.13 | $150.81 – $3,599.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,651.14 | $150.81 – $3,554.21 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,136.61 | $2,235.08 – $6,200.00 |