Adapter b 8 channel 10cm at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,244.20
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.
$2,907.00
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.
$179.17 with CenCal vs $763.42 with MultiPlan — 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $179.17 | ↓ -86% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $179.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $389.50 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $451.82 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $475.19 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $482.98 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $490.77 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $490.77 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $506.35 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $514.14 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $599.83 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $599.83 | ↓ -52% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $654.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $654.36 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $716.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $716.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $716.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $716.68 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $732.26 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $755.63 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $755.63 | ↓ -39% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $763.42 | ↓ -39% |
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Adapter b 8 channel 10cm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,797.95 | $535.68 – $1,740.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $14,481.71 | not published |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,139.55 | $148.01 – $763.42 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7,529.45 | $97.50 – $351.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,448.27 | $97.50 – $378.30 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $14,481.71 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $6,196.27 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $7,122.15 | not published |