3-d radiotherapy plan at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$3,005.85
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.
$7,023.00
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.
$616.43 with Partnership Health Plan vs $11,311.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $616.43 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $616.43 | ↓ -79% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $625.04 | ↓ -79% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $625.04 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $932.60 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $932.60 | ↓ -69% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,519.26 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,738.51 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,053.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,053.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,053.04 | ↓ -32% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,511.50 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,620.00 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,424.49 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,899.32 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,180.24 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,461.16 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,531.39 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $6,812.31 | ↑ +127% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,882.54 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,023.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,023.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,311.00 | ↑ +276% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,311.00 | ↑ +276% |
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3-d radiotherapy plan at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5,617.35 | $932.60 – $11,157.75 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,796.55 | $1,965.27 – $7,200.92 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $6,208.23 | $1,780.22 – $8,165.89 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,029.49 | $616.43 – $5,850.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $3,715.35 | $1,925.97 – $6,126.26 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $6,300.00 | $1,513.19 – $3,293.41 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $7,255.84 | $616.43 – $13,243.66 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $4,172.17 | $479.74 – $14,954.00 |