Assay of prostaglandin at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$139.10
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.
$325.00
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.
$38.97 with Partnership Health Plan vs $115.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $38.97 | ↓ -72% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -72% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.97 | ↓ -72% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $41.77 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $50.12 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.12 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.12 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $50.12 | ↓ -64% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $57.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.95 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.95 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $72.45 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $72.45 | ↓ -48% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $96.60 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $101.20 | ↓ -27% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $105.80 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $107.62 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $107.62 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $111.55 | ↓ -20% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $112.70 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $115.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $115.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $115.00 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $115.00 | ↓ -17% |
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Assay of prostaglandin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $203.45 | $8.35 – $315.25 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $216.45 | $38.97 – $318.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $127.40 | $31.05 – $126.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $252.85 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $90.68 | $38.97 – $325.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $164.78 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $189.80 | $27.17 – $112.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $40.93 – $203.73 |