Convert nephrostomy catheter at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$3,054.10
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.
$8,726.00
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.
$1,142.00 with Blue Shield vs $16,802.00 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 Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,142.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $1,821.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,064.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $2,559.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $2,628.00 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,688.58 | ↓ -12% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,742.35 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $2,816.77 | ↓ -8% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $2,866.00 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $2,949.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $2,957.44 | ↓ -3% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $3,172.48 | ↑ +4% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $3,180.00 | ↑ +4% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $3,495.16 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthnet | Blue And Gold Other Commercial Plan | $4,449.00 | ↑ +46% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $4,973.88 | ↑ +63% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $5,753.57 | ↑ +88% |
| Healthnet | All Commercial Plans | $7,176.00 | ↑ +135% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $7,815.00 | ↑ +156% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $16,802.00 | ↑ +450% |
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Convert nephrostomy catheter at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,049.45 | $646.92 – $4,655.74 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,616.99 | $826.13 – $1,773.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,540.96 | $478.71 – $1,773.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,187.42 | $826.13 – $1,845.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,114.29 | $826.13 – $4,302.34 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,025.66 | $826.13 – $3,858.12 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,572.95 | $2,238.00 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,072.16 | $1,894.00 – $5,171.00 |