Cannula declotting 36861 at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$3,776.25
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.
$8,823.00
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.
$4,852.65 with Western Growers vs $13,146.00 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,852.65 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,558.49 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,861.00 | ↑ +82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6,868.48 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,411.32 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7,764.24 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,852.47 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $8,117.16 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8,205.39 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,646.54 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8,734.77 | ↑ +131% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8,743.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,743.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8,743.00 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $9,303.00 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $9,965.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $11,609.00 | ↑ +207% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,466.00 | ↑ +230% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $13,146.00 | ↑ +248% |
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Cannula declotting 36861 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,977.97 | $1,835.73 – $12,900.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $3,458.62 | $2,382.21 – $8,646.54 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,934.83 | $2,863.62 – $8,484.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,892.41 | $255.90 – $8,378.74 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,966.76 | $2,033.43 – $8,133.72 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $5,319.44 | $222.94 – $10,225.71 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $2,937.00 – $15,313.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $7,745.00 – $27,307.00 |