Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$42.80
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.
$100.00
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.
$49.50 with Western Growers vs $165.97 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 | $49.50 | ↑ +16% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $51.52 | ↑ +20% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $51.52 | ↑ +20% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $57.26 | ↑ +34% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $57.26 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $62.37 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $62.37 | ↑ +46% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $64.41 | ↑ +50% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $77.29 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $77.29 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $77.29 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $77.29 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $83.16 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $86.63 | ↑ +102% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $86.63 | ↑ +102% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $87.12 | ↑ +104% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $91.08 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $96.03 | ↑ +124% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $97.02 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $99.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $99.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $99.00 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $99.00 | ↑ +131% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $165.97 | ↑ +288% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $165.97 | ↑ +288% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein afp-l3 frac & total at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $43.37 | $26.73 – $170.91 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $28.17 | $12.88 – $94.48 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $68.85 | $63.12 – $514.34 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $66.60 | $53.59 – $97.02 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $39.20 | $26.73 – $195.11 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $68.85 | $64.41 – $650.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $68.85 | $64.41 – $737.11 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $68.85 | $738.83 – $738.83 |