Glucose-6-phosphate dhydrogenase screen at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$134.75
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.
$385.00
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.
$6.05 with Aetna vs $57.77 with Blue Shield — 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 | $6.05 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $6.66 | ↓ -95% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $7.86 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $9.66 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $11.19 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $12.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $12.95 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $15.01 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $17.59 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $18.77 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $37.52 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $38.89 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $41.67 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $41.67 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $57.77 | ↓ -57% |
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Glucose-6-phosphate dhydrogenase screen at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $39.38 | $6.05 – $18.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $51.95 | $6.05 – $14.83 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $36.07 | $5.13 – $18.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $59.36 | $5.50 – $17.37 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $58.72 | $5.50 – $17.37 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $102.78 | $3.00 – $24.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $45.57 | $5.14 – $26.24 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $86.01 | $6.05 – $31.02 |