Culture mycobacteria definitive id each isolate at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$67.20
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.
$157.00
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.
$14.61 with Alignment vs $108.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.61 | ↓ -78% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.75 | ↓ -75% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.75 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.53 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $17.53 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.53 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $17.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.34 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.34 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $37.66 | ↓ -44% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.66 | ↓ -44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $54.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $68.04 | ↑ +1% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $68.04 | ↑ +1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $80.29 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $80.29 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $80.29 | ↑ +19% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $90.72 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $95.04 | ↑ +41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $99.36 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $104.76 | ↑ +56% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $105.84 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $108.00 | ↑ +61% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture mycobacteria definitive id each isolate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $24.33 | $14.61 – $35.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $61.55 | $14.61 – $105.84 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $17.35 | $12.39 – $48.38 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $176.16 | $12.42 – $29.22 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $123.72 | $14.61 – $222.46 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $16.93 | $9.84 – $83.75 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $15.39 | $7.87 – $83.75 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $146.88 | $12.42 – $29.22 |