Acute hepatitis panel at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$220.15
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.
$629.00
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.
$47.63 with Aetna vs $453.80 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 | $47.63 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $48.58 | ↓ -78% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $52.39 | ↓ -76% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $61.92 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $67.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $76.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $86.07 | ↓ -61% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $88.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $95.26 | ↓ -57% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $95.26 | ↓ -57% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $95.26 | ↓ -57% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $101.93 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $120.74 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $131.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $199.83 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $276.81 | ↑ +26% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $296.10 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $300.10 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $334.03 | ↑ +52% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $453.80 | ↑ +106% |
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Acute hepatitis panel at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $260.61 | $47.63 – $148.61 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $93.90 | $9.53 – $145.50 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $436.56 | $46.68 – $330.13 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $110.43 | $16.50 – $122.73 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $322.35 | $47.63 – $116.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $101.14 | $8.91 – $144.27 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $455.22 | $16.50 – $136.87 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $450.31 | $16.50 – $136.87 |