T4 (thyroxine) free at Providence Saint John's Health Center
2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273
$140.35
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.
$401.00
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.
$9.02 with Aetna vs $85.93 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 | $9.02 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Central Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $9.92 | ↓ -93% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $11.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $12.79 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $14.41 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $16.69 | ↓ -88% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $18.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $18.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $19.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $22.39 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $26.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $27.97 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $55.82 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $57.80 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $61.99 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $61.99 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $85.93 | ↓ -39% |
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T4 (thyroxine) free at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $135.35 | $2.16 – $23.92 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.53 | $1.80 – $15.52 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $374.85 | $8.84 – $73.59 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $153.23 | $4.00 – $23.23 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $128.54 | $9.02 – $21.56 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $140.34 | $2.16 – $27.31 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $109.82 | $9.02 – $25.91 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $108.64 | $9.02 – $25.91 |