Discography cerv/thor spine at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$3,076.47
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.
$7,188.00
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.
$144.11 with CenCal vs $8,254.75 with Cigna — 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 | $144.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $144.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $144.11 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $144.11 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $218.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $218.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $549.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $549.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $549.23 | ↓ -82% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,097.54 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,481.19 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $3,426.37 | ↑ +11% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,594.00 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,947.38 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,947.38 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,947.38 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,947.38 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,528.44 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,592.12 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,037.92 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,612.96 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,044.24 | ↑ +129% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,254.75 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $8,254.75 | ↑ +168% |
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Discography cerv/thor spine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,985.90 | $218.03 – $8,500.48 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,670.00 | $144.11 – $2,158.94 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,817.70 | $144.11 – $9,704.12 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,644.12 | $144.11 – $9,206.42 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,615.61 | $144.11 – $9,206.42 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,992.74 | $144.11 – $3,357.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $3,967.56 | $144.11 – $3,529.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $2,360.70 | $144.11 – $28,687.56 |