Carboplatin 10 mg/ml desensitization at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$42.38
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.
$99.00
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.
$4.31 with United vs $69.00 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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| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.31 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.43 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.43 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.94 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.99 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.99 | ↓ -86% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.94 | ↓ -84% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.94 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $12.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $12.14 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $22.47 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $25.51 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.05 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $31.05 | ↓ -27% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $34.50 | ↓ -19% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $43.47 | ↑ +3% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $57.96 | ↑ +37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $63.48 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $65.55 | ↑ +55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $67.62 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $69.00 | ↑ +63% |
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Carboplatin 10 mg/ml desensitization at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $37.23 | $4.31 – $28.47 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $41.96 | $16.30 – $61.74 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $38.81 | $2.93 – $70.56 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $40.07 | $2.93 – $15.39 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $39.64 | $4.12 – $14.22 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $404.90 | $5.86 – $171.79 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $404.90 | $4.22 – $204.92 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $25.88 | $3.69 – $15.00 |