CT angio hrt w/3d image at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,095.26
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.
$2,559.00
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.
$222.30 with MHS Hospice vs $2,342.00 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $222.30 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $312.13 | ↓ -72% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $328.94 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $328.94 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $401.74 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -63% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $453.77 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $472.22 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $472.22 | ↓ -57% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,171.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,475.46 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,574.51 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,574.51 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,574.51 | ↑ +44% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,967.28 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,154.64 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $2,271.74 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,295.16 | ↑ +110% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,342.00 | ↑ +114% |
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CT angio hrt w/3d image at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,184.75 | $401.74 – $3,890.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7,634.36 | $312.13 – $2,419.62 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $873.38 | $274.05 – $994.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $290.50 | $312.13 – $752.23 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $287.37 | $312.13 – $752.23 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,701.47 | $291.55 – $2,108.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,660.27 | $291.55 – $2,305.12 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,477.35 | $312.13 – $3,461.22 |