Ins vag brachytx device at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$358.40
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.
$1,024.00
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.
$352.70 with Blue Shield vs $5,977.00 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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| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $352.70 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $391.93 | ↑ +9% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $399.77 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $410.62 | ↑ +15% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $431.13 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $462.48 | ↑ +29% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $509.51 | ↑ +42% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $601.00 | ↑ +68% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $601.13 | ↑ +68% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $725.08 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $838.74 | ↑ +134% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $970.00 | ↑ +171% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $1,178.65 | ↑ +229% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $1,309.24 | ↑ +265% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $1,309.24 | ↑ +265% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,487.00 | ↑ +315% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,687.00 | ↑ +371% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $4,005.00 | ↑ +1017% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $5,977.00 | ↑ +1568% |
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Ins vag brachytx device at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $277.95 | $391.93 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $247.26 | $86.82 – $706.44 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $750.72 | $424.02 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $5,563.68 | $333.14 – $1,597.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $505.22 | $99.84 – $971.19 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $353.22 | $118.06 – $1,266.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $281.75 | $353.00 – $2,581.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $490.08 | $333.14 – $1,293.00 |