Culture mycoplasma any source at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$57.75
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.
$165.00
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.
$15.39 with Aetna vs $146.63 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 | $15.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $15.70 | ↓ -73% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $16.93 | ↓ -71% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $20.01 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $21.83 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $24.58 | ↓ -57% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $28.47 | ↓ -51% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $30.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $30.78 | ↓ -47% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $32.93 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $38.20 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $44.69 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $47.72 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $95.25 | ↑ +65% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $98.63 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $105.78 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $105.78 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $146.63 | ↑ +154% |
Visitor-reported prices
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $7.34 | $4.53 – $40.82 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.25 | $3.08 – $22.57 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $108.27 | $15.08 – $125.58 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $16.53 | $15.39 – $39.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $23.98 | $15.39 – $35.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $15.14 | $9.72 – $46.60 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $14.33 | $12.00 – $44.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $14.17 | $12.00 – $44.21 |