Blood smear microscopic w manual differential wbc count at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$26.25
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.
$75.00
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.
$3.80 with Aetna vs $32.80 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 | $3.80 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $3.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $4.18 | ↓ -84% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $4.94 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $5.39 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $6.07 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $6.87 | ↓ -74% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $7.03 | ↓ -73% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $7.60 | ↓ -71% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $7.60 | ↓ -71% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $8.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $9.46 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $9.63 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $17.00 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $20.01 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $21.40 | ↓ -18% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $21.69 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $24.15 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $32.80 | ↑ +25% |
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Blood smear microscopic w manual differential wbc count at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.02 | $3.80 – $11.86 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $32.18 | $0.76 – $52.38 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $141.57 | $3.80 – $10.78 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $36.63 | $3.80 – $53.90 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $129.66 | $2.97 – $11.51 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $72.72 | $3.80 – $18.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $71.94 | $3.80 – $18.17 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $114.20 | $3.80 – $124.00 |