Asp core fat pad at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$400.75
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.
$1,145.00
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.
$66.86 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 | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $66.86 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $258.05 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $263.21 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $270.35 | ↓ -33% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $283.85 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $304.49 | ↓ -24% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $335.46 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $352.70 | ↓ -12% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $477.39 | ↑ +19% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $552.23 | ↑ +38% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $601.00 | ↑ +50% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $970.00 | ↑ +142% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,178.65 | ↑ +194% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $1,309.24 | ↑ +227% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $1,309.24 | ↑ +227% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,487.00 | ↑ +271% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,687.00 | ↑ +321% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,891.00 | ↑ +2368% |
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Asp core fat pad at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $324.97 | $208.23 – $624.69 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $343.35 | $259.42 – $854.46 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $464.10 | $258.05 – $4,751.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $252.47 – $453.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $270.38 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | not published | $252.47 – $252.47 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | not published | $252.47 – $252.47 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | not published | $252.47 – $252.47 |