Sodium 24 hour urine at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$131.25
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.
$375.00
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.
$5.06 with Aetna vs $46.31 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 | $5.06 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.16 | ↓ -96% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $5.57 | ↓ -96% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $6.58 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $7.18 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $8.08 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $9.36 | ↓ -93% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $10.12 | ↓ -92% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $10.83 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $12.57 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $15.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $30.08 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $31.17 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $33.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $33.41 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $46.31 | ↓ -65% |
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Sodium 24 hour urine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.89 | $5.06 – $15.79 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.53 | $1.01 – $7.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $120.36 | $4.96 – $39.68 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $93.31 | $2.50 – $13.04 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $104.57 | $5.06 – $114.66 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $85.46 | $1.35 – $15.33 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $101.66 | $5.06 – $39.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $100.56 | $5.06 – $38.71 |