Allergen alpha lactalbumin ige at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$28.25
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.
$66.00
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.
$0.94 with Western Growers vs $46.18 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $0.94 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.18 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1.18 | ↓ -96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1.58 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1.65 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1.73 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1.82 | ↓ -94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1.84 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.87 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.31 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.31 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.52 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $46.18 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.18 | ↑ +63% |
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Allergen alpha lactalbumin ige at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $40.77 | $3.59 – $29.10 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7.62 | $2.39 – $4.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $25.88 | $0.51 – $54.29 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $28.79 | $0.98 – $1.87 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $3.19 | $1.61 – $32.68 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $4.59 | $0.42 – $62.40 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $4.92 | $0.47 – $79.70 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $4.47 | $0.38 – $79.70 |