Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$13,978.48
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.
$32,660.00
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.
$4,220.73 with Partnership Health Plan vs $20,627.64 with United — 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 | $4,220.73 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $4,220.73 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $4,638.19 | ↓ -67% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $4,638.19 | ↓ -67% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $5,191.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $5,191.50 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $7,250.00 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,715.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $11,459.80 | ↓ -18% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $13,126.68 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13,393.00 | ↓ -4% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $14,491.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16,348.58 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $16,408.00 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17,502.24 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $18,335.68 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,544.04 | ↑ +33% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19,169.12 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $19,377.48 | ↑ +39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $19,451.00 | ↑ +39% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20,419.28 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20,627.64 | ↑ +48% |
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Ablate bone tumor(s) perq at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $16,477.13 | $5,191.50 – $29,342.82 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $8,878.45 | $1,509.00 – $5,716.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $12,802.72 | $4,220.73 – $20,419.28 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $13,004.30 | $4,220.73 – $21,255.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $12,864.09 | $4,220.73 – $20,989.51 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4,426.76 | $0.80 – $7,529.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $8,803.62 | $4,042.00 – $24,397.68 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $15,070.56 | $3,429.00 – $21,313.00 |