Smear fluorescent and/or acid fast stain at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center
15031 Rinaldi St, Mission Hills, CA · Providence · · NPI 1477587632
$93.10
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.
$266.00
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.
$5.39 with Aetna vs $51.15 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 | $5.39 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.50 | ↓ -94% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.93 | ↓ -94% |
| La Care Health Plan | Exchange | $7.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $7.65 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8.61 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $9.49 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Oap Hmo/Pos | $9.49 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $9.97 | ↓ -89% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10.78 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $10.78 | ↓ -88% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $10.78 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $11.53 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $14.02 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $14.33 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $15.68 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo/Ppo/Epo | $17.33 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $26.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $51.15 | ↓ -45% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $166.01 | $2.16 – $14.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $31.81 | $1.08 – $7.90 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $313.65 | $5.28 – $43.86 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $95.26 | $5.39 – $36.26 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $103.90 | $5.39 – $13.22 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $87.25 | $5.39 – $50.96 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $43.93 | $3.50 – $15.47 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $43.45 | $3.50 – $15.47 |