Artery x-rays lung at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$1,924.30
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.
$5,498.00
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.
$421.58 with Aetna vs $15,276.98 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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| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $421.58 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $1,626.03 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,151.38 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $2,311.50 | ↑ +20% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $2,609.81 | ↑ +36% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,609.81 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,615.88 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $2,909.25 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $2,909.25 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,061.05 | ↑ +111% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,142.27 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $4,254.67 | ↑ +121% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,467.15 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $4,791.97 | ↑ +149% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $5,279.36 | ↑ +174% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $7,512.94 | ↑ +290% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $8,690.64 | ↑ +352% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $15,276.98 | ↑ +694% |
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Artery x-rays lung at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,672.73 | $266.42 – $13,858.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,143.71 | $176.10 – $13,457.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,711.06 | $176.10 – $15,820.61 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,223.93 | $176.10 – $15,009.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,210.74 | $176.10 – $15,009.21 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,944.23 | $176.10 – $6,313.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,627.23 | $1,173.40 – $4,393.52 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,535.68 | $956.57 – $7,512.94 |