Disability dlco at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$376.64
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.
$880.00
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.
$37.62 with CenCal vs $871.20 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.62 | ↓ -90% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.62 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $56.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $56.91 | ↓ -85% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $168.78 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $198.80 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $306.54 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $410.83 | ↑ +9% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $440.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $554.40 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $739.20 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $774.40 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $783.20 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $809.60 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $818.40 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $862.40 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $871.20 | ↑ +131% |
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Disability dlco at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $295.65 | $56.91 – $526.50 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $272.00 | $31.29 – $485.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $516.82 | $37.62 – $669.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $363.00 | $37.62 – $907.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $90.90 | $37.62 – $198.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $89.92 | $37.62 – $198.80 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $755.82 | $215.86 – $306.58 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,044.48 | $244.78 – $277.71 |