Bowel imaging at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$416.50
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.
$1,190.00
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.
$514.17 with Aetna 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $514.17 | ↑ +23% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $521.19 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $524.46 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $538.69 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $557.96 | ↑ +34% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $565.59 | ↑ +36% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $589.01 | ↑ +41% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $589.01 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $600.83 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $602.29 | ↑ +45% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $606.72 | ↑ +46% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $633.72 | ↑ +52% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $668.42 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $704.79 | ↑ +69% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $704.79 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $951.22 | ↑ +128% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,100.33 | ↑ +164% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,950.38 | ↑ +368% |
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Bowel imaging at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $795.85 | $234.68 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,136.67 | $80.37 – $1,643.18 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,253.18 | $538.74 – $710.37 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,536.10 | $155.12 – $3,378.06 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,682.98 | $155.12 – $3,938.62 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,226.18 | $155.12 – $2,083.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $751.28 | $155.12 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $743.18 | $155.12 – $1,976.45 |