Cholangiogram percutaneous compl at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,754.80
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.
$4,100.00
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.
$749.07 with Partnership Health Plan vs $9,965.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $749.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $749.07 | ↓ -57% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $749.07 | ↓ -57% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $749.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,133.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,133.27 | ↓ -35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,189.55 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,508.03 | ↑ +43% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,344.04 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,503.28 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,543.09 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,662.52 | ↑ +109% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,702.33 | ↑ +111% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,793.27 | ↑ +116% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,901.38 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,941.19 | ↑ +125% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,981.00 | ↑ +127% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,484.02 | ↑ +156% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +204% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,861.00 | ↑ +291% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +308% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $9,965.00 | ↑ +468% |
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Cholangiogram percutaneous compl at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,075.64 | $1,133.27 – $8,890.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,245.36 | $660.69 – $2,447.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,119.31 | $749.07 – $3,017.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,371.48 | $749.07 – $3,737.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,171.78 | $746.76 – $3,556.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $3,547.05 | $1,639.46 – $11,377.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,167.68 | $3,914.24 – $8,519.24 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,498.43 | $462.24 – $1,926.00 |