Ablation cryo pq liver tumor(s) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$8,156.83
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.
$19,058.00
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.
$416.98 with Partnership Health Plan vs $22,491.00 with Aetna — 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 | $416.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $416.98 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $416.98 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $416.98 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $630.85 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $630.85 | ↓ -92% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $10,481.90 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $11,609.00 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $12,006.54 | ↑ +47% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $13,146.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $13,228.50 | ↑ +62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13,393.00 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $13,961.00 | ↑ +71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $16,008.72 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16,771.04 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,961.62 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $17,533.36 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $17,723.94 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $18,676.84 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $18,708.00 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $18,867.42 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $19,451.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $22,491.00 | ↑ +176% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $22,491.00 | ↑ +176% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22,491.00 | ↑ +176% |
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Ablation cryo pq liver tumor(s) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5,867.01 | $630.85 – $13,228.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $7,470.74 | $416.98 – $18,676.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $6,213.88 | $416.98 – $13,399.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $6,146.89 | $416.98 – $13,231.71 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $11,040.88 | $416.98 – $15,772.68 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $10,138.08 | $10,791.00 – $16,652.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $8,836.37 | $416.98 – $7,388.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $9,170.10 | $416.98 – $44,770.14 |