Debride skin bone at fx site at Providence Saint John's Health Center

2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

$3,951.85

Cash price

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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.

$11,291.00

Gross charge

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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.

$763.02 with Blue Shield vs $11,827.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $763.02 ↓ -81%
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,528.38 ↓ -61%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $2,362.00 ↓ -40%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $2,679.00 ↓ -32%
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $3,735.95 ↓ -5%
Humana Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan $3,810.67 ↓ -4%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $3,914.07 ↓ -1%
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $4,109.54 ↑ +4%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $4,408.36 ↑ +12%
La Care Health Plan Covered Ca Exchange $4,856.73 ↑ +23%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $5,107.50 ↑ +29%
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $5,559.00 ↑ +41%
Blue Shield Ppo/Epo $5,673.39 ↑ +44%
Blue Shield Hmo $5,673.39 ↑ +44%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $6,911.51 ↑ +75%
Healthnet Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan $7,332.00 ↑ +86%
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $7,994.93 ↑ +102%
Cigna All Commercial Plans $9,297.00 ↑ +135%
Healthnet All Commercial Plans $11,827.00 ↑ +199%

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Debride skin bone at fx site at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $3,904.56 $2,570.00 – $3,994.31
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $560.78 $217.83 – $825.16
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $3,577.65 $4,124.29 – $16,652.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $3,803.07 $3,735.95 – $16,652.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $3,174.75 $3,125.00 – $5,198.77
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $2,481.15 $8,005.00 – $25,998.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $5,595.21 $2,741.00 – $4,124.29
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo $5,235.84 $1,894.00 – $6,920.00

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