Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$1,374.10
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.
$3,926.00
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.
$896.84 with Aetna vs $5,977.00 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 | $896.84 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $914.78 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $939.60 | ↓ -32% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $986.52 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $1,058.26 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.09 | ↓ -17% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $1,165.89 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $1,168.15 | ↓ -15% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $1,484.00 | ↑ +8% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $1,659.15 | ↑ +21% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,919.24 | ↑ +40% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $2,362.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $2,391.00 | ↑ +74% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,679.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $3,816.60 | ↑ +178% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $4,239.46 | ↑ +209% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $4,239.46 | ↑ +209% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $5,559.00 | ↑ +305% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $5,977.00 | ↑ +335% |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,450.44 | $939.68 – $2,695.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $223.78 | $76.32 – $289.10 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,173.62 | $990.07 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,532.66 | $896.84 – $8,018.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,078.14 | $939.50 – $3,982.87 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $957.27 | $3,331.00 – $20,799.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $1,870.68 | $970.26 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,092.48 | $762.31 – $5,171.00 |