Apheresis plasma at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,230.31
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.
$5,211.00
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.
$1,121.46 with Partnership Health Plan vs $6,857.00 with Aetna — 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 | $1,121.46 | ↓ -50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,121.46 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,208.00 | ↓ -46% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,232.44 | ↓ -45% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,232.44 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,379.40 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,379.40 | ↓ -38% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,614.76 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,619.00 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,082.87 | ↓ -7% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,866.05 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,282.93 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,377.24 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,585.68 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,637.79 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,794.12 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,846.23 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,106.78 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,158.89 | ↑ +131% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,970.00 | ↑ +168% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +192% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $6,759.00 | ↑ +203% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +207% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +207% |
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Apheresis plasma at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,511.95 | $1,041.39 – $3,779.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $949.39 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $986.13 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $12,260.91 | $2,211.33 – $7,455.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,487.49 | $2,003.11 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,334.36 | $877.59 – $3,510.36 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,901.90 | $2,167.10 – $4,737.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $4,144.32 | $1,702.64 – $5,171.00 |