Chromatography at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$13.30
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.
$38.00
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.
$18.06 with Aetna vs $172.07 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 | $18.06 | ↑ +36% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $18.42 | ↑ +38% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $19.87 | ↑ +49% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $23.48 | ↑ +77% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $25.62 | ↑ +93% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $28.85 | ↑ +117% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $33.41 | ↑ +151% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $36.12 | ↑ +172% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $36.12 | ↑ +172% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $38.65 | ↑ +191% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $44.85 | ↑ +237% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $52.47 | ↑ +295% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $56.00 | ↑ +321% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $111.77 | ↑ +740% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $115.30 | ↑ +767% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $124.13 | ↑ +833% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $124.13 | ↑ +833% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $172.07 | ↑ +1194% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Chromatography at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $11.10 | $4.86 – $47.92 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $13.77 | $3.61 – $25.41 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4.75 | $17.70 – $146.79 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $10.85 | $9.00 – $46.54 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $111.89 | $9.75 – $18.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $9.94 | $4.86 – $54.71 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $9.41 | $7.98 – $51.90 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $9.30 | $7.98 – $51.90 |