Diagnostic Mammogram (both breasts) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$377.93
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.
$883.00
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.
$148.03 with Partnership Health Plan vs $840.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $148.03 | ↓ -61% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $148.03 | ↓ -61% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.36 | ↓ -60% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.96 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.96 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $263.00 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $263.00 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $263.00 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $263.00 | ↓ -30% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $420.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $487.33 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $487.33 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $529.20 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $701.93 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $701.93 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $701.93 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $705.60 | ↑ +87% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $772.80 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $814.80 | ↑ +116% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $823.20 | ↑ +118% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $840.00 | ↑ +122% |
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Diagnostic Mammogram (both breasts) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $247.04 | $152.28 – $501.84 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $388.22 | $192.70 – $455.90 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,454.01 | $118.38 – $762.69 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $283.05 | $104.78 – $396.90 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $275.97 | $59.67 – $572.90 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $303.48 | $127.00 – $543.52 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $300.21 | $127.00 – $543.52 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $574.26 | $120.80 – $999.55 |