Cardiac shunt imaging at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$1,208.55
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.
$3,453.00
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.
$319.26 with Blue Cross vs $2,072.91 with Cigna — 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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| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $319.26 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $326.15 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $368.04 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $386.55 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $403.02 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $437.06 | ↓ -64% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $487.58 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $514.17 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $524.46 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $538.69 | ↓ -55% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $565.59 | ↓ -53% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $589.01 | ↓ -51% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $589.01 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $606.72 | ↓ -50% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $668.42 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $951.22 | ↓ -21% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $1,100.33 | ↓ -9% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $1,572.56 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $2,072.91 | ↑ +72% |
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Cardiac shunt imaging at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $430.56 | $265.41 – $1,824.90 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,770.56 | $507.06 – $1,920.80 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $364.70 | $491.50 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $360.77 | $143.47 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $280.77 | $111.51 – $531.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $573.20 | $124.99 – $511.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $980.10 | $552.06 – $6,158.70 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $1,930.30 | $135.86 – $3,144.20 |