Administration chemotherapy IV infusion up to 1 hour single/initial substance/drug at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$736.16
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.
$1,720.00
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.
$32.81 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 | $32.81 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $32.81 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.26 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.26 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $40.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $40.36 | ↓ -95% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $377.70 | ↓ -49% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↓ -43% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $704.00 | ↓ -4% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $887.04 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $999.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,029.41 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,029.41 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,029.41 | ↑ +40% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,182.72 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,208.00 | ↑ +64% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,239.04 | ↑ +68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,295.36 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,309.44 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,379.84 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,408.00 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,408.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,408.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,453.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,311.00 | ↑ +1436% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,311.00 | ↑ +1436% |
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Administration chemotherapy IV infusion up to 1 hour single/initial substance/drug at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $589.99 | $40.36 – $834.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $225.65 | $47.17 – $498.58 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,154.85 | $32.81 – $1,699.32 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $706.00 | $32.81 – $9,050.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $383.62 | $32.81 – $19,249.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $727.40 | $32.81 – $985.52 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,988.49 | $468.99 – $468.99 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,275.00 | $424.83 – $424.83 |