Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$128.40
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.
$300.00
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.
$3.36 with Health Net vs $104.86 with MultiPlan — 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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| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.36 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.36 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.51 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.51 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.29 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.34 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $5.36 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5.36 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.34 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.34 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9.91 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $11.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.15 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $48.15 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $51.80 | ↓ -60% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $53.50 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $67.41 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $69.53 | ↓ -46% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $89.88 | ↓ -30% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $98.44 | ↓ -23% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $104.86 | ↓ -18% |
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Azithromycin 500 mg intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $82.35 | $3.36 – $28.86 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $84.15 | $4.44 – $29.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $47.44 | $2.22 – $104.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $52.69 | $2.22 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $52.12 | $2.81 – $20.54 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $4.44 – $31.65 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $4.77 – $37.75 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $84.15 | $3.57 – $74.55 |