Assay of salicylate at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$87.15
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.
$249.00
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.
$18.64 with Aetna vs $127.12 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 | $18.64 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $19.01 | ↓ -78% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $20.50 | ↓ -76% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $24.23 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $26.44 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $29.77 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $34.48 | ↓ -60% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $37.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $37.28 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $38.48 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $39.89 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $40.82 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $43.21 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $46.30 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $82.58 | ↓ -5% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $91.71 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $91.71 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $127.12 | ↑ +46% |
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Assay of salicylate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $623.22 | $18.27 – $51.60 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $594.66 | $18.64 – $123.26 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $82.62 | $18.64 – $53.06 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $420.24 | $123.55 – $123.55 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $600.78 | $18.27 – $55.48 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $126.72 | $15.84 – $37.28 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $163.80 | $18.64 – $37.28 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $436.45 | $18.64 – $78.10 |