MRI lower extremity other than joint without contrast (both sides) at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$1,799.70
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.
$5,142.00
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.
$306.88 with Aetna vs $2,552.24 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 | $306.88 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $313.02 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $321.51 | ↓ -82% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $337.57 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $362.12 | ↓ -80% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $372.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $372.86 | ↓ -79% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $398.95 | ↓ -78% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $567.73 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $656.73 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $813.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $834.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,887.37 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $2,064.54 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,294.88 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $2,552.24 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $2,552.24 | ↑ +42% |
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MRI lower extremity other than joint without contrast (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,450.22 | $307.13 – $2,582.58 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,068.91 | $630.58 – $1,491.86 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4,025.94 | $321.54 – $2,628.48 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $7,953.96 | $338.78 – $3,321.75 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,561.84 | $306.88 – $3,766.89 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,788.57 | $321.48 – $1,502.66 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $1,977.27 | $3,775.69 – $3,775.69 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,369.17 | $332.01 – $2,826.01 |