An fluoro guide for cvp at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,045.18
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.
$2,442.00
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.
$63.56 with Partnership Health Plan vs $918.72 with United — 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 | $63.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $63.56 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $63.56 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $63.56 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $96.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $96.16 | ↓ -91% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $464.00 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $545.58 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $584.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $584.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $584.62 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $584.64 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $731.20 | ↓ -30% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $779.52 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $816.64 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $825.92 | ↓ -21% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $853.76 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $863.04 | ↓ -17% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $909.44 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $918.72 | ↓ -12% |
Visitor-reported prices
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An fluoro guide for cvp at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $608.39 | $96.16 – $1,083.42 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $321.44 | $104.87 – $475.30 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $157.18 | $61.06 – $231.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $871.42 | $63.56 – $908.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $372.49 | $63.56 – $803.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $368.47 | $63.56 – $993.96 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,705.44 | $391.85 – $772.22 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $619.65 | $444.36 – $444.36 |