CT colonography dx at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$212.72
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.
$497.00
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.
$135.12 with Kaiser vs $2,200.00 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -36% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $136.73 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $245.18 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $245.18 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $245.18 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $245.18 | ↑ +15% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $248.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $313.11 | ↑ +47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $413.94 | ↑ +95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $413.94 | ↑ +95% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $417.48 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $457.24 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $487.06 | ↑ +129% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $487.20 | ↑ +129% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $487.20 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $497.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $497.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $497.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $611.31 | ↑ +187% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $611.31 | ↑ +187% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,642.00 | ↑ +672% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,756.00 | ↑ +725% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,756.00 | ↑ +725% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,200.00 | ↑ +934% |
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CT colonography dx at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,783.54 | $135.12 – $3,176.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $183.46 | $126.36 – $1,768.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,210.11 | $128.25 – $3,375.12 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $641.07 | $145.47 – $1,253.94 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $194.40 | $114.29 – $248.76 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $159.30 | $146.10 – $2,468.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $829.85 | $134.46 – $1,160.74 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $187.91 | $109.25 – $2,069.70 |