Aldesleukin injection at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$16,050.00
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.
$37,500.00
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.
$1,537.49 with BCBS - Anthem vs $36,750.00 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 | $1,537.49 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,063.51 | ↓ -87% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $4,688.06 | ↓ -71% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $4,688.06 | ↓ -71% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $6,056.64 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,262.18 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,505.95 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6,735.78 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $8,405.56 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $8,405.56 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8,747.08 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,747.08 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9,271.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $9,271.80 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $17,161.92 | ↑ +7% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18,750.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $19,488.96 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $23,625.00 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31,500.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $32,822.46 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32,822.46 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $32,822.46 | ↑ +105% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $34,500.00 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $36,750.00 | ↑ +129% |
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Aldesleukin injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6,419.33 | $927.10 – $11,431.68 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $9,836.70 | $1,570.00 – $5,555.93 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $6,365.40 | $833.30 – $3,205.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $6,861.86 | $996.40 – $4,230.60 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $7,494.75 | $1,275.43 – $22,796.38 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $4,275.12 | $1,718.56 – $25,501.72 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $15,640.46 | $2,418.82 – $12,300.59 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $12,225.00 | $4,596.61 – $30,000.00 |