Drng of mouth lesion 40801 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

$566.30

Cash price

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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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$1,618.00

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.

$693.67 with Aetna vs $9,297.00 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share

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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
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $693.67 ↑ +22%
Humana Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan $707.54 ↑ +25%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $726.74 ↑ +28%
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $763.03 ↑ +35%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $818.52 ↑ +45%
La Care Health Plan Covered Ca Exchange $901.77 ↑ +59%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $1,283.28 ↑ +127%
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $1,286.82 ↑ +127%
Healthnet Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan $1,484.00 ↑ +162%
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $1,484.45 ↑ +162%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $1,487.00 ↑ +163%
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $1,528.38 ↑ +170%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $1,687.00 ↑ +198%
Healthnet All Commercial Plans $2,391.00 ↑ +322%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $5,107.50 ↑ +802%
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $5,559.00 ↑ +882%
Blue Shield Ppo/Epo $5,673.39 ↑ +902%
Blue Shield Hmo $5,673.39 ↑ +902%
Cigna All Commercial Plans $9,297.00 ↑ +1542%

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Drng of mouth lesion 40801 at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $962.88 $726.80 – $2,570.00
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $1,145.97 $765.77 – $7,483.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $1,262.76 $693.67 – $8,018.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $561.51 $726.66 – $5,198.77
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $774.18 $3,331.00 – $25,998.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $1,160.76 $750.46 – $4,042.00
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo $2,240.64 $589.62 – $6,920.00
Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center Tarzana $597.80 $693.67 – $3,470.00

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