Biopsy of prostate at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$3,583.65
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.
$10,239.00
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.
$1,528.38 with Blue Shield vs $9,297.00 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 | $1,528.38 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,387.19 | ↓ -33% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $4,099.00 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $4,449.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,649.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $5,107.50 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $5,559.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $5,673.39 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $5,673.39 | ↑ +58% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $7,176.00 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,297.00 | ↑ +159% |
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Biopsy of prostate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,049.45 | $123.49 – $4,655.74 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,007.32 | $100.40 – $4,461.94 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,282.72 | $92.36 – $349.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,255.18 | $100.40 – $4,461.94 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,915.32 | $100.40 – $6,286.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,883.89 | $100.40 – $6,207.82 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,609.16 | $6,200.00 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,655.06 | $7,327.00 – $26,648.00 |