Injection for bladder x-ray at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$159.25
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.
$455.00
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.
$1,487.00 with Unitedhealthcare vs $9,891.00 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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| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,487.00 | ↑ +834% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,687.00 | ↑ +959% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $5,559.00 | ↑ +3391% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,891.00 | ↑ +6111% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Injection for bladder x-ray at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $206.74 | $127.44 – $472.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $277.70 | $218.12 – $516.04 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $563.55 | $264.55 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $730.17 | $196.90 – $362.59 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,037.63 | $31.31 – $294.79 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $622.11 | $96.66 – $358.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $77.91 | $115.50 – $294.79 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $77.07 | $115.50 – $294.79 |