Drain cath image guided visceral pq at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,287.66
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.
$5,345.00
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.
$183.92 with Partnership Health Plan vs $8,439.00 with Health Net — 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 | $183.92 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $183.92 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $183.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $183.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $278.25 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $278.25 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↓ -10% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,648.25 | ↑ +16% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,033.45 | ↑ +33% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,044.60 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,237.20 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,285.35 | ↑ +87% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,429.80 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,477.95 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +96% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,718.70 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,766.85 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +185% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +200% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +213% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,451.00 | ↑ +226% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8,439.00 | ↑ +269% |
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Drain cath image guided visceral pq at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,554.90 | $278.25 – $3,763.88 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $7,554.44 | $183.92 – $11,116.14 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,038.80 | $183.92 – $4,436.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,698.44 | $183.92 – $3,496.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,781.06 | $183.92 – $3,616.62 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,197.59 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,032.97 | $2,124.23 – $9,858.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,967.35 | $183.92 – $1,918.00 |