Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro
1300 W 7th St, San Pedro, CA · Providence · · NPI 1942247291
$103.60
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.
$296.00
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.
$16.77 with Aetna vs $159.86 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 | $16.77 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $17.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $18.45 | ↓ -82% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $21.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $23.79 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $26.79 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $31.02 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $31.83 | ↓ -69% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $33.54 | ↓ -68% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $33.54 | ↓ -68% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $33.54 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $35.89 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $42.40 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $44.77 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $44.78 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $49.22 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $54.38 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $54.38 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $86.30 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $159.86 | ↑ +54% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $21.90 | $2.16 – $44.49 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $6.89 | $3.28 – $140.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $148.92 | $16.43 – $136.95 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $295.04 | $4.34 – $8.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $43.78 | $4.00 – $48.19 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $43.31 | $4.00 – $48.19 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $167.79 | $16.77 – $173.07 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $85.68 | $16.77 – $196.27 |