Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,073.66
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.
$4,845.00
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.
$224.16 with Partnership Health Plan vs $9,965.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $224.16 | ↓ -89% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $224.16 | ↓ -89% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $246.49 | ↓ -88% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $246.49 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $275.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $275.72 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↑ +20% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,664.75 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,052.35 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,069.80 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,263.60 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,312.05 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,457.40 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,505.85 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,748.10 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,796.55 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +158% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,861.00 | ↑ +231% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +245% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,451.00 | ↑ +259% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8,439.00 | ↑ +307% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $9,965.00 | ↑ +381% |
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Destruction by neurolytic agent w/imaging guidance lumbar/sacral (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,300.70 | $152.90 – $579.18 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,899.24 | $224.16 – $4,748.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,031.97 | $224.16 – $4,381.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,146.59 | $224.16 – $4,620.71 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,277.37 | $2,511.53 – $10,413.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $761.43 | $2,630.99 – $3,982.87 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,035.07 | $195.34 – $4,370.52 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $3,437.91 | $2,717.15 – $6,732.00 |