T4 (thyroxine) total at Providence Saint John's Health Center

2121 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, CA · Providence · · NPI 1124026273

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Apr 1, 2026 · Ingested Sep 11, 2026

$99.40

Cash price

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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.

$284.00

Gross charge

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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.

$6.87 with Aetna vs $65.54 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Aetna Medicare Managed Care Plan $6.87 ↓ -93%
Humana Choicecare Medicare Managed Care Plan $7.01 ↓ -93%
Central Health Plan Medicare Managed Care Plan $7.56 ↓ -92%
La Care Health Plan Covered Ca Exchange $8.93 ↓ -91%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan $9.74 ↓ -90%
Blue Cross Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan $10.97 ↓ -89%
Healthnet Ambetter Hmo $12.71 ↓ -87%
Unitedhealthcare All Commercial Plans $13.74 ↓ -86%
Unitedhealthcare Select/Navigate Hmo $13.74 ↓ -86%
Healthnet Ambetter Ppo $14.70 ↓ -85%
Cigna All Commercial Plans $17.08 ↓ -83%
Aetna All Commercial Plans $19.97 ↓ -80%
Blue Shield Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange $21.31 ↓ -79%
Blue Shield Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo $42.57 ↓ -57%
Blue Cross All Commercial Plans $44.07 ↓ -56%
Blue Shield Ppo/Epo $47.28 ↓ -52%
Blue Shield Hmo $47.28 ↓ -52%
Blue Shield Medicare Managed Care Plan $65.54 ↓ -34%

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T4 (thyroxine) total at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $58.70 $1.77 – $18.25
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $216.24 $6.73 – $56.11
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $154.51 $3.27 – $17.72
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $11.45 $3.54 – $6.53
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $141.52 $1.77 – $20.83
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $161.39 $3.00 – $19.76
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $159.65 $3.00 – $19.76
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $243.78 $6.87 – $70.91

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