Explore woundchest 20101 at St Jude Medical Center
101 E Valencia Mesa Dr, Fullerton, CA · Providence · · NPI 1194926279
$2,553.60
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.
$5,320.00
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.
$2,255.66 with Providence vs $20,418.00 with Blue Cross — 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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| Providence | Oscar All Commercial Plans | $2,255.66 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,653.72 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,780.25 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $3,131.35 | ↑ +23% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $3,465.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,746.00 | ↑ +47% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $4,909.39 | ↑ +92% |
| Blue Shield | Epn Exchange | $5,605.00 | ↑ +119% |
| Healthnet | Hmo/Pos/Ppo | $5,995.00 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo | $6,929.00 | ↑ +171% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo | $7,704.00 | ↑ +202% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Non-Mcs (Ind1, Ncx1, Ncx3) All Commercial Plans | $17,015.00 | ↑ +566% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Mcs (Indx) All Commercial Plans | $20,418.00 | ↑ +700% |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,494.52 | $2,570.00 – $4,657.00 |
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