Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$96.60
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.
$276.00
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.
$4.95 with Aetna vs $47.19 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 | $4.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.44 | ↓ -94% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $6.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $7.02 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $7.91 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $9.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $9.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $9.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $10.59 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $12.30 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $14.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $15.35 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $30.66 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $31.77 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $34.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $34.05 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $47.19 | ↓ -51% |
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Albumin serum plasma or whole blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $75.34 | $2.03 – $13.14 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $24.41 | $0.99 – $11.64 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $109.14 | $4.85 – $40.45 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $86.46 | $3.75 – $12.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $51.29 | $4.95 – $11.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $79.19 | $2.03 – $15.01 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $76.43 | $3.54 – $14.24 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $75.61 | $3.54 – $14.24 |