Smear special stain inclusion bodies/parasites at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$142.45
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.
$407.00
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.
$5.99 with Aetna vs $57.08 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 | $5.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.11 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.59 | ↓ -95% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $7.79 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $9.57 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $10.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $10.50 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $11.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -92% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $11.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Aco Other Commercial Plan | $12.57 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $12.82 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $15.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $35.07 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $37.66 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $37.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $41.85 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $57.08 | ↓ -60% |
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Smear special stain inclusion bodies/parasites at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.02 | $2.35 – $15.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.81 | $1.20 – $13.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $57.63 | $5.87 – $48.91 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $32.96 | $4.34 – $15.42 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $337.00 | $3.88 – $14.69 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $30.19 | $2.35 – $18.13 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $76.43 | $5.99 – $17.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $75.61 | $5.99 – $17.20 |