Brachytx isodose plan simple at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$628.60
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.
$1,796.00
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.
$273.70 with Aetna vs $1,058.51 with Blue Cross — 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 | All Commercial Plans | $273.70 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $279.05 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $481.58 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $491.21 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $504.54 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $518.61 | ↓ -17% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $529.74 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $568.26 | ↓ -10% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $626.05 | ↓ -0% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $630.59 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $701.31 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $701.31 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $890.92 | ↑ +42% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,030.58 | ↑ +64% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $1,058.51 | ↑ +68% |
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Brachytx isodose plan simple at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $513.78 | $251.56 – $1,020.51 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,646.79 | $481.58 – $1,259.99 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $735.89 | $166.28 – $2,503.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,429.13 | $521.01 – $945.27 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $251.04 | $409.34 – $890.92 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $594.31 | $166.28 – $1,154.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,512.18 | $166.28 – $5,420.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $558.95 | $246.88 – $890.92 |