Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$2,450.00
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.
$7,000.00
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.
$1,142.09 with Blue Shield vs $7,176.00 with Healthnet — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.09 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,124.23 | ↓ -13% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,166.71 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,225.51 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,263.87 | ↓ -8% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,336.65 | ↓ -5% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,506.56 | ↑ +2% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $2,761.50 | ↑ +13% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $3,816.60 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $3,929.83 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $4,005.00 | ↑ +63% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $4,099.00 | ↑ +67% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $4,239.46 | ↑ +73% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $4,239.46 | ↑ +73% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $4,449.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $4,545.85 | ↑ +86% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,649.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $7,176.00 | ↑ +193% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,125.66 | $70.42 – $3,763.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4,778.19 | $1,921.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,868.22 | $57.25 – $4,066.02 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $795.87 | $57.25 – $305.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,780.47 | $57.25 – $4,239.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,003.40 | $57.25 – $4,320.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,005.29 | $57.25 – $4,316.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $7,008.93 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |