Feeding tube reposition at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$567.10
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.
$1,325.00
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.
$147.83 with Partnership Health Plan vs $1,325.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $147.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $147.83 | ↓ -74% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $147.83 | ↓ -74% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $147.83 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.65 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.65 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $639.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $639.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $639.26 | ↑ +13% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $662.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $834.75 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,077.04 | ↑ +90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,113.00 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,166.00 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,179.25 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,219.00 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,232.25 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,298.50 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,311.75 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,325.00 | ↑ +134% |
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Feeding tube reposition at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $205.86 | $126.90 – $366.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $519.40 | $147.83 – $1,298.50 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $197.38 | $147.83 – $432.09 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $195.25 | $147.83 – $526.68 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $153.47 | $105.21 – $420.84 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $284.28 | $147.83 – $552.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $1,470.15 | $147.83 – $2,940.30 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $528.82 | $147.83 – $1,601.90 |