H pylori drug admin at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$33.39
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.
$78.00
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.
$7.86 with Kaiser vs $27.00 with Aetna — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7.86 | ↓ -76% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.01 | ↓ -73% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.01 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.43 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.43 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.43 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.43 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $13.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.18 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $17.01 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.01 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $20.26 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.26 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.68 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $23.76 | ↓ -29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $24.84 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $26.19 | ↓ -22% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $26.46 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $27.00 | ↓ -19% |
Visitor-reported prices
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H pylori drug admin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $30.58 | $7.29 – $26.46 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $12.06 | $4.84 – $36.52 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $9.60 | $6.99 – $35.20 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $17.12 | $4.84 – $36.08 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $12.06 | $4.84 – $44.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $12.68 | $6.99 – $36.52 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $7.70 – $63.86 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $7.86 – $80.70 |