Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
501 S Buena Vista, Burbank, CA · Providence · · NPI 1336173269
$47.75
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.
$136.43
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.
$26.07 with Aetna vs $248.38 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 | $26.07 | ↓ -45% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $26.59 | ↓ -44% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $28.68 | ↓ -40% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $33.89 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $36.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $41.64 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $45.77 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $45.77 | ↓ -4% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $48.23 | ↑ +1% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $52.14 | ↑ +9% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $52.14 | ↑ +9% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $52.14 | ↑ +9% |
| Aetna | Aco Other Commercial Plan | $54.67 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $55.79 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $68.66 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $152.60 | ↑ +220% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $163.89 | ↑ +243% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $164.12 | ↑ +244% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $182.10 | ↑ +281% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $248.38 | ↑ +420% |
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Warde virus isolation tissue culture innoculation presumptive id herpes simplex at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $17.52 | $8.14 – $69.19 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $27.90 | $5.21 – $35.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $129.54 | $25.55 – $212.79 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $24.29 | $15.07 – $67.19 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $43.41 | $21.66 – $39.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $22.25 | $8.14 – $78.99 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $49.35 | $10.50 – $74.94 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $48.82 | $10.50 – $74.94 |