Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$143.38
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.
$335.00
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.
$21.49 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 | $21.49 | ↓ -85% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.49 | ↓ -85% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.49 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $32.51 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $32.51 | ↓ -77% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $73.77 | ↓ -49% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $90.43 | ↓ -37% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $127.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $160.02 | ↑ +12% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $213.36 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $214.21 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $214.21 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $214.21 | ↑ +49% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $223.52 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $233.68 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $236.22 | ↑ +65% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $248.92 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $254.00 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $254.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $999.00 | ↑ +597% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,208.00 | ↑ +743% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,453.00 | ↑ +913% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,619.00 | ↑ +1029% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,311.00 | ↑ +7789% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,311.00 | ↑ +7789% |
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion each additional hour at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $220.76 | $32.51 – $190.07 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $47.41 | $14.23 – $104.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $369.63 | $21.49 – $543.90 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $136.03 | $21.49 – $9,050.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $63.82 | $21.49 – $19,249.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $151.94 | $21.49 – $166.84 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,090.89 | $102.23 – $102.23 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $995.01 | $92.60 – $92.60 |