External cannula declotting at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$3,040.52
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.
$7,104.00
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.
$769.20 with MHS Hospice vs $9,715.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $769.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,907.20 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,475.52 | ↑ +47% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,782.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $5,416.00 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,967.36 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,004.00 | ↑ +97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,251.52 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,322.56 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,535.68 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,606.72 | ↑ +117% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,961.92 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,032.96 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $7,250.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $8,719.00 | ↑ +187% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,715.00 | ↑ +220% |
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External cannula declotting at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,350.80 | $832.68 – $3,734.50 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,012.06 | $2,121.35 – $2,695.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,784.77 | $1,918.08 – $6,961.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $873.71 | $635.85 – $1,973.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $961.54 | $203.48 – $2,069.80 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,887.62 | $2,235.08 – $7,483.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,270.01 | $2,024.63 – $8,018.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,517.76 | $2,120.93 – $5,198.77 |