Heart first pass multiple at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$1,422.05
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.
$4,063.00
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.
$541.55 with Aetna vs $2,612.61 with Cigna — 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 | All Commercial Plans | $541.55 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $698.35 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $712.32 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $731.65 | ↓ -49% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $733.74 | ↓ -48% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $755.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $755.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $768.18 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $824.04 | ↓ -42% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $907.85 | ↓ -36% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $1,291.95 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,343.49 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $1,377.60 | ↓ -3% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,494.47 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,633.57 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $1,816.77 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $1,816.77 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,612.61 | ↑ +84% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,497.12 | $308.77 – $5,366.00 |
| Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro | San Pedro | $2,081.10 | $497.40 – $2,079.15 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $731.71 – $1,753.90 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $755.17 – $2,216.49 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $698.35 – $2,513.51 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $675.44 – $1,002.67 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | not published | $2,519.39 – $2,519.39 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $755.17 – $1,885.70 |