Adrenalin epinephrine inject at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$77.04
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.
$180.00
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.
$1.07 with BCBS - Anthem vs $52.92 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1.07 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.19 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.24 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.25 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.25 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.57 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1.57 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $2.90 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $3.29 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.26 | ↓ -93% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.26 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $24.30 | ↓ -68% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $34.02 | ↓ -56% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $45.36 | ↓ -41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $49.68 | ↓ -36% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $52.92 | ↓ -31% |
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Adrenalin epinephrine inject at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $367.92 | $0.65 – $52.26 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $32.15 | $6.73 – $25.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $539.44 | $0.40 – $1.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $164.42 | $0.40 – $1.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $37.12 | $6.50 – $52.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $22.05 | $0.26 – $2.41 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $130.71 | $7.13 – $59.78 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $696.80 | $0.30 – $1.00 |