Cystouretero & or pyeloscope at Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo

27700 Medical Center Rd, Mission Viejo, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003956913

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

$1,960.32

Cash price

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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.

$4,084.00

Gross charge

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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.

$3,853.66 with Providence vs $11,662.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Providence Oscar All Commercial Plans $3,853.66 ↑ +97%
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $4,533.71 ↑ +131%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $4,666.00 ↑ +138%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $4,749.87 ↑ +142%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $5,159.00 ↑ +163%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $5,349.71 ↑ +173%
Healthnet Hmo/Pos/Ppo $5,995.00 ↑ +206%
Blue Shield Epn Exchange $7,908.00 ↑ +303%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $8,387.37 ↑ +328%
Aetna Gatekeeper Hmo $8,912.00 ↑ +355%
Blue Cross Anthem Non-Mcs (Ind1, Ncx1, Ncx3) All Commercial Plans $9,718.00 ↑ +396%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo $9,826.00 ↑ +401%
Blue Shield Hmo/Ppo $10,925.00 ↑ +457%
Blue Cross Anthem Mcs (Indx) All Commercial Plans $11,662.00 ↑ +495%

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Cystouretero & or pyeloscope at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $7,432.74 $2,937.00 – $6,619.00
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $550.12 $213.69 – $809.48
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $9,328.92 $5,004.98 – $10,593.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $4,889.37 $4,533.71 – $10,413.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $5,524.83 $3,572.00 – $5,330.31
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $4,904.16 $9,031.00 – $36,398.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $9,584.94 $3,423.00 – $6,732.00
Dominican Hospital Santa Cruz $3,813.75 $299.06 – $14,831.19

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