Car ion chnnlpath inc 2 gns at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$154.08
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.
$360.00
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.
$153.63 with Western Growers vs $1,507.07 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $153.63 | ↓ -0% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $193.58 | ↑ +26% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $258.10 | ↑ +68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $282.68 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $298.05 | ↑ +93% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $301.12 | ↑ +95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $307.26 | ↑ +99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $377.93 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $377.93 | ↑ +145% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $701.88 | ↑ +356% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,507.07 | ↑ +878% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,507.07 | ↑ +878% |
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Car ion chnnlpath inc 2 gns at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $141.12 | $82.97 – $1,771.69 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $114.00 | $153.63 – $1,680.82 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $112.77 | $153.63 – $1,680.82 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $175.45 | $30.73 – $245.81 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $90.34 | $64.53 – $307.26 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $239.05 | $159.78 – $307.26 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $158.24 | $184.36 – $307.26 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $85.73 | $76.82 – $1,066.43 |