Procainamide 100 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$187.96
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.
$537.04
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.
$89.70 with Blue Cross vs $611.33 with Unitedhealthcare — 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 Cross | All Commercial Plans | $89.70 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $194.32 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $214.81 | ↑ +14% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $219.11 | ↑ +17% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $236.29 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $259.61 | ↑ +38% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $279.25 | ↑ +49% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $292.35 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $397.40 | ↑ +111% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $449.42 | ↑ +139% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $449.42 | ↑ +139% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $449.42 | ↑ +139% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $449.42 | ↑ +139% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $459.70 | ↑ +145% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $565.84 | ↑ +201% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $611.33 | ↑ +225% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $611.33 | ↑ +225% |
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Procainamide 100 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $90.23 | $18.09 – $489.06 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $258.34 | $40.88 – $611.33 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $233.69 | $68.85 – $153.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $268.92 | $81.31 – $535.08 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $753.13 | $87.20 – $284.34 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $745.01 | $65.28 – $218.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,441.16 | $44.26 – $611.33 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,441.16 | $52.79 – $611.33 |