Bone marrow imaging ltd at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$840.00
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.
$2,400.00
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.
$349.28 with Blue Shield vs $1,950.38 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 | $349.28 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $350.70 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $374.42 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $424.69 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $472.32 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $472.32 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $514.17 | ↓ -39% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $524.46 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $538.69 | ↓ -36% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $565.59 | ↓ -33% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $589.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $589.01 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $606.72 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $630.85 | ↓ -25% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $668.42 | ↓ -20% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $951.22 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,100.33 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,950.38 | ↑ +132% |
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Bone marrow imaging ltd at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $997.11 | $80.37 – $1,441.42 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $705.28 | $133.76 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $697.67 | $133.76 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $526.26 | $133.76 – $848.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,057.81 | $133.76 – $884.54 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $246.87 | $120.38 – $1,364.43 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $839.79 | $120.38 – $1,953.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $1,010.80 | $252.55 – $1,434.70 |