Frozen blood thaw at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$306.60
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$876.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$6.26 with Cigna vs $575.89 with Blue Shield — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $116.07 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $148.05 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $219.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $223.51 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $229.57 | ↓ -25% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $241.04 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $258.56 | ↓ -16% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $284.86 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $346.19 | ↑ +13% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $405.38 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $425.87 | ↑ +39% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $468.93 | ↑ +53% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $517.82 | ↑ +69% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $566.82 | ↑ +85% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $566.82 | ↑ +85% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $575.89 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $575.89 | ↑ +88% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Frozen blood thaw at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $149.85 | $216.45 – $793.22 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $83.98 | $71.14 – $301.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $168.95 | $73.28 – $303.80 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $67.96 | $27.28 – $281.48 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $54.07 | $86.80 – $248.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $96.48 | $27.28 – $248.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $67.96 | $27.28 – $248.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $71.43 | $86.80 – $229.69 |