Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$3,606.76
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.
$8,427.00
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.
$85.44 with Partnership Health Plan vs $8,439.00 with Health Net — 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 | $85.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.09 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.09 | ↓ -97% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $134.69 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $134.69 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -43% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,457.20 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,105.52 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +81% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,807.36 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7,131.52 | ↑ +98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,212.56 | ↑ +100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,451.00 | ↑ +107% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $7,455.68 | ↑ +107% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,536.72 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,941.92 | ↑ +120% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8,022.96 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8,439.00 | ↑ +134% |
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Biopsy/soft tissue/neck or thorax 21550 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,779.55 | $105.09 – $4,949.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,036.03 | $1,921.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,170.83 | $85.44 – $411.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $3,054.08 | $85.44 – $4,673.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,038.65 | $85.44 – $4,396.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,016.67 | $85.44 – $4,341.05 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,375.69 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,395.58 | $2,124.23 – $9,858.00 |