Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$988.05
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.
$2,823.00
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.
$306.88 with Aetna vs $1,197.81 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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| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $306.88 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $313.02 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $321.51 | ↓ -67% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $337.57 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $362.12 | ↓ -63% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $398.95 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $567.73 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $586.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $656.73 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $695.66 | ↓ -30% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $709.59 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $725.31 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $786.57 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $853.82 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $877.49 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $1,197.81 | ↑ +21% |
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Carotid Artery Ultrasound (Duplex) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,241.30 | $221.09 – $2,210.52 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,143.52 | $48.34 – $1,830.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,428.51 | $321.54 – $1,094.08 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,436.80 | $179.75 – $2,597.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $6,036.63 | $120.30 – $455.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,157.57 | $179.75 – $1,809.08 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,031.01 | $179.75 – $2,223.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,019.90 | $179.75 – $2,195.41 |