Echo exam of fetal heart at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$977.13
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.
$2,283.00
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.
$85.42 with Partnership Health Plan vs $2,237.34 with MultiPlan — 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 | $85.42 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.42 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.42 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.42 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $129.24 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $129.24 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $250.74 | ↓ -74% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $284.30 | ↓ -71% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $307.13 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $336.05 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $517.79 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $517.79 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $517.79 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $517.79 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $520.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $520.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $520.05 | ↓ -47% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,081.74 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,081.74 | ↑ +11% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,141.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,438.29 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,917.72 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,100.36 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,237.34 | ↑ +129% |
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Echo exam of fetal heart at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $781.65 | $85.42 – $1,271.67 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $295.69 | $85.42 – $1,206.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $292.50 | $85.42 – $1,206.45 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $988.32 | $228.67 – $567.73 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $394.45 | $116.17 – $496.86 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $439.81 | $85.42 – $802.76 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $361.20 | $76.88 – $840.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $384.48 | $215.90 – $567.73 |