CT guidance for needle placement at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,071.10
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.
$4,839.00
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.
$111.05 with Partnership Health Plan vs $4,552.02 with United — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $111.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $111.05 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $111.05 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $111.05 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $168.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $168.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $653.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $653.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $653.43 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,756.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,756.00 | ↓ -15% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,299.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,896.74 | ↑ +40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $3,373.96 | ↑ +63% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,862.32 | ↑ +86% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,046.24 | ↑ +95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,092.22 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,230.16 | ↑ +104% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,276.14 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,506.04 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,521.87 | ↑ +118% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,552.02 | ↑ +120% |
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CT guidance for needle placement at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,722.66 | $168.01 – $3,067.74 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $751.92 | $183.23 – $1,441.42 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,890.78 | $111.05 – $1,110.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,537.04 | $111.05 – $3,557.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $831.79 | $111.05 – $1,793.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $822.82 | $111.05 – $2,219.58 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,626.61 | $863.09 – $2,423.25 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,835.49 | $2,747.98 – $2,747.98 |