Cholinesterase at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$5.67
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.
$13.24
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.
$6.04 with Western Growers vs $20.30 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 |
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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $6.04 | ↑ +7% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $7.61 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.87 | ↑ +39% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.02 | ↑ +59% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.02 | ↑ +59% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.44 | ↑ +66% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.44 | ↑ +66% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.44 | ↑ +66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.44 | ↑ +66% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.04 | ↑ +77% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.04 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.14 | ↑ +79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $10.63 | ↑ +87% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $11.11 | ↑ +96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $11.71 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $11.83 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.07 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.07 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $12.07 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.07 | ↑ +113% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.85 | ↑ +162% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.85 | ↑ +162% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.30 | ↑ +258% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20.30 | ↑ +258% |
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Cholinesterase at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.81 | $3.58 – $20.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $6.89 | $1.57 – $11.55 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $13.11 | $7.87 – $19.29 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5.20 | $3.26 – $23.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $5.24 | $6.04 – $22.64 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $5.18 | $6.04 – $22.64 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $8.06 | $1.21 – $9.67 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4.15 | $2.54 – $12.08 |