External tissue culture neoplastic disorders bone marrow/blood cells at Providence Little Company of Mary Med Center Torrance
4101 Torrance Blvd, Torrance, CA · Providence · · NPI 1003084211
$32.81
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.
$93.75
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.
$143.75 with Aetna vs $1,203.53 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 | $143.75 | ↑ +338% |
| Humana | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $146.62 | ↑ +347% |
| Caremore | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $158.12 | ↑ +382% |
| La Care Health Plan | Covered Ca Exchange | $186.88 | ↑ +470% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $203.90 | ↑ +521% |
| Blue Cross | Anthem Vivity Non City Of La Other Commercial Plan | $229.61 | ↑ +600% |
| Cigna | Oa/Oap Hmo/Pos | $259.76 | ↑ +692% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Hmo | $265.94 | ↑ +711% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Commercial Plans | $287.50 | ↑ +776% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Select/Navigate Hmo | $287.50 | ↑ +776% |
| First Health/Coventry | Coventry All Commercial Plans | $287.50 | ↑ +776% |
| Healthnet | Ambetter Ppo | $307.62 | ↑ +838% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $347.79 | ↑ +960% |
| Cigna | Ppo | $364.42 | ↑ +1011% |
| Blue Cross | All Commercial Plans | $529.84 | ↑ +1515% |
| Blue Shield | Epn/Ifp Benefit Exchange | $734.12 | ↑ +2137% |
| Blue Shield | Hmo | $785.29 | ↑ +2293% |
| Blue Shield | Tandem Ppo/Blue High Performance Ppo/Epo | $795.88 | ↑ +2326% |
| Blue Shield | Ppo/Epo | $885.88 | ↑ +2600% |
| Blue Shield | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $1,203.53 | ↑ +3568% |
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External tissue culture neoplastic disorders bone marrow/blood cells at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $76.65 | $25.65 – $381.42 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $239.52 | $28.75 – $249.29 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $156.22 | $47.50 – $370.40 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $116.55 | $48.72 – $90.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $143.08 | $25.65 – $435.43 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $87.13 | $45.00 – $413.10 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $86.19 | $45.00 – $413.10 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $134.10 | $9.50 – $76.00 |