Apheresis plasma at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$4,474.75
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.
$12,785.00
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.
$1,142.09 with Blue Shield vs $9,891.00 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 | $1,142.09 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,003.11 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,010.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,043.17 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,098.62 | ↓ -53% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,203.42 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,363.64 | ↓ -47% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $2,604.04 | ↓ -42% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $2,719.00 | ↓ -39% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,705.76 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $3,816.60 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $4,005.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $4,099.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $4,239.46 | ↓ -5% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $4,239.46 | ↓ -5% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $4,286.66 | ↓ -4% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $4,385.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,649.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,891.00 | ↑ +121% |
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Apheresis plasma at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,230.31 | $1,121.46 – $5,106.78 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,511.95 | $1,041.39 – $3,779.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $949.39 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $986.13 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $12,260.91 | $2,211.33 – $7,455.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,487.49 | $2,003.11 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,334.36 | $877.59 – $3,510.36 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,901.90 | $2,167.10 – $4,737.00 |