Abdominal CT scan (with contrast) at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$2,543.45
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.
$7,267.00
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.
$225.59 with Aetna vs $1,582.46 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 | $225.59 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $230.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $236.35 | ↓ -91% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $248.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $266.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $291.55 | ↓ -89% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $291.55 | ↓ -89% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $293.27 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $417.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $482.77 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $684.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $740.92 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,170.22 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $1,243.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,422.88 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $1,582.46 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $1,582.46 | ↓ -38% |
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Abdominal CT scan (with contrast) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,354.30 | $226.19 – $2,411.76 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,889.08 | $35.60 – $3,220.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,307.57 | $236.37 – $1,583.70 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,604.38 | $226.19 – $4,989.18 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $6,462.87 | $299.45 – $2,081.52 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,093.28 | $226.19 – $1,768.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,071.30 | $226.19 – $4,466.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,048.97 | $226.19 – $4,410.57 |