CT colonography dx w/dye at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$448.55
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.
$1,048.00
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 $2,200.00 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $222.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $401.74 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -10% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $468.71 | ↑ +4% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $468.71 | ↑ +4% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $524.00 | ↑ +17% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $569.22 | ↑ +27% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $569.22 | ↑ +27% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $660.24 | ↑ +47% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $709.11 | ↑ +58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $709.11 | ↑ +58% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $880.32 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $964.16 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,027.04 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,048.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,048.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,048.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,642.00 | ↑ +266% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,756.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,756.00 | ↑ +291% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,200.00 | ↑ +390% |
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CT colonography dx w/dye at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,923.70 | $226.19 – $3,425.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $430.81 | $226.19 – $1,768.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,366.52 | $214.68 – $3,811.36 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $1,318.80 | $225.59 – $1,305.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $308.31 | $179.25 – $2,343.55 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $1,071.70 | $225.59 – $2,523.96 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $274.88 | $226.19 – $2,343.55 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $256.89 | $197.00 – $1,582.00 |