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1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,190.51
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.
$5,118.00
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.
$107.59 with Partnership Health Plan vs $16,635.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $107.59 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $107.59 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $107.89 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $107.89 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $162.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $162.78 | ↓ -93% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,814.90 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,224.34 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,299.12 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,503.84 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,555.02 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,708.56 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,759.74 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,015.64 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,066.82 | ↑ +131% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +161% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +161% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↑ +161% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +197% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $12,414.00 | ↑ +467% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16,635.00 | ↑ +659% |
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Access & clsr pq fem art endogft dlvry w/img uni at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,986.27 | $107.59 – $4,965.66 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,729.31 | $107.59 – $4,664.88 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,092.24 | $2,699.00 – $21,319.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,317.71 | $107.59 – $3,764.88 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,993.41 | $1,716.00 – $12,908.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,686.08 | $1,200.00 – $13,634.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $2,461.70 | $107.59 – $4,732.20 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $594.00 | $107.59 – $1,188.00 |