Removal of foreign body at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$2,448.95
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.
$6,997.00
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.
$3,409.47 with Blue Shield vs $14,539.00 with Cigna — 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 | $3,409.47 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,735.95 | ↑ +53% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3,810.67 | ↑ +56% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $3,914.07 | ↑ +60% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $4,013.07 | ↑ +64% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4,109.54 | ↑ +68% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $4,408.36 | ↑ +80% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $4,856.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $5,821.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6,603.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $6,790.00 | ↑ +177% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $6,911.51 | ↑ +182% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $7,332.00 | ↑ +199% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $7,994.93 | ↑ +226% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $11,393.66 | ↑ +365% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $11,827.00 | ↑ +383% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $12,656.02 | ↑ +417% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $12,656.02 | ↑ +417% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $14,539.00 | ↑ +494% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Removal of foreign body at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,676.23 | $336.82 – $6,483.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,230.05 | $3,914.43 – $6,619.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,121.41 | $273.84 – $7,147.14 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $806.53 | $273.84 – $1,186.78 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,858.86 | $273.84 – $7,147.14 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,904.19 | $273.84 – $6,262.40 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,245.24 | $4,124.29 – $16,692.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,849.19 | $3,735.95 – $17,420.00 |