CT bone density axial at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$424.58
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.
$992.00
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.
$97.37 with MHS Hospice vs $1,756.00 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $97.37 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $111.88 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $182.03 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $182.03 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $182.03 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $182.03 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $431.39 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $431.39 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $431.39 | ↑ +2% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $453.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $570.78 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $761.04 | ↑ +79% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $833.52 | ↑ +96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $878.82 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $887.88 | ↑ +109% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $906.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,756.00 | ↑ +314% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,756.00 | ↑ +314% |
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CT bone density axial at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,709.96 | $226.88 – $859.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $338.69 | $64.53 – $1,768.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $353.98 | $106.19 – $987.28 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $141.62 | $73.00 – $1,570.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $117.28 – $671.90 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $123.56 – $849.12 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $111.93 – $962.91 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $117.25 – $384.12 |