Adrenal cortex & medulla img at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$2,182.95
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.
$6,237.00
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.
$928.95 with Blue Shield vs $6,336.39 with Cigna — 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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| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $928.95 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $981.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $995.88 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,129.51 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $1,256.19 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $1,256.19 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,665.13 | ↓ -24% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,698.44 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,744.53 | ↓ -20% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,831.65 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,964.83 | ↓ -10% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,035.50 | ↓ -7% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $2,035.50 | ↓ -7% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $2,164.67 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,426.98 | ↑ +11% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,080.50 | ↑ +41% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $3,563.39 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6,336.39 | ↑ +190% |
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Adrenal cortex & medulla img at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,015.68 | $472.69 – $6,326.24 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,120.60 | $312.44 – $11,166.12 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7,377.95 | $312.44 – $5,114.62 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,086.21 | $312.44 – $7,222.02 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,248.05 | $312.44 – $6,851.62 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,234.59 | $312.44 – $6,851.62 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $959.62 | $312.44 – $1,826.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,327.52 | $1,415.36 – $3,080.50 |