Strep a ag ia at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$120.40
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.
$344.00
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.
$16.81 with Aetna vs $88.52 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 | $16.81 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $17.15 | ↓ -86% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $18.49 | ↓ -85% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $21.85 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $23.84 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $26.85 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $26.99 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $28.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $31.10 | ↓ -74% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $33.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $33.62 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $35.97 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $41.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $57.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $57.63 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $63.86 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $63.86 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $88.52 | ↓ -26% |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $28.46 | $3.36 – $49.47 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $101.01 | $11.73 – $53.90 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $134.54 | $11.73 – $197.96 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $92.52 | $11.73 – $53.90 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $90.85 | $11.73 – $253.38 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $173.70 | $11.73 – $150.57 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $44.09 | $11.73 – $158.00 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $98.65 | $11.73 – $222.22 |