Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$239.40
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.
$684.00
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.
$42.11 with Blue Shield vs $468.93 with Healthnet — 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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| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $42.11 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $51.86 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $53.02 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $66.37 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $66.69 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $80.70 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $89.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $89.75 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $219.12 | ↓ -8% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $223.51 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $229.57 | ↓ -4% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $241.04 | ↑ +1% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $258.56 | ↑ +8% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $284.86 | ↑ +19% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $287.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $287.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $405.38 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $468.93 | ↑ +96% |
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Cytopathology fna adequacy evaluation first episode each site at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $84.10 | $51.84 – $384.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $290.19 | $84.91 – $287.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $674.10 | $40.58 – $509.60 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $164.51 | $6.00 – $23.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $617.40 | $40.58 – $509.60 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $77.91 | $15.26 – $56.68 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $77.07 | $15.26 – $56.68 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $321.81 | $107.30 – $287.00 |