Doppler upper/lower extremity arteries limited bilateral at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$566.25
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.
$1,323.00
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.
$59.79 with Partnership Health Plan vs $7,044.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $59.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $59.79 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.54 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.54 | ↓ -87% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $94.79 | ↓ -83% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $94.79 | ↓ -83% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $133.01 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $530.11 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $530.11 | ↓ -6% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $596.00 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $617.24 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $750.96 | ↑ +33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $827.24 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,001.28 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,048.96 | ↑ +85% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,096.64 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.16 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,732.00 | ↑ +1089% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,840.00 | ↑ +1108% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +1144% |
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Doppler upper/lower extremity arteries limited bilateral at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $368.80 | $73.54 – $585.60 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $244.22 | $25.78 – $307.49 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,698.30 | $59.79 – $782.04 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $467.27 | $59.79 – $623.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $214.81 | $59.79 – $591.22 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $212.50 | $59.79 – $591.22 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $263.16 | $188.91 – $434.63 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $516.12 | $171.12 – $492.87 |