Hc nm kidney imaging with flow at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,797.18
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.
$4,199.00
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.
$171.88 with Partnership Health Plan vs $3,569.16 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 | $171.88 | ↓ -90% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $171.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $171.88 | ↓ -90% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $171.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $260.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $260.03 | ↓ -86% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $449.10 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,153.76 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,153.76 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,153.76 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,443.63 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,772.15 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,772.15 | ↓ -1% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,821.00 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,934.80 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,294.46 | ↑ +28% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,059.28 | ↑ +70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,350.64 | ↑ +86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,569.16 | ↑ +99% |
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Hc nm kidney imaging with flow at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $678.90 | $260.03 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $516.67 | $80.37 – $746.90 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,451.97 | $171.88 – $2,083.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $724.94 | $171.88 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $717.12 | $171.88 – $1,976.45 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,429.13 | $567.62 – $1,036.85 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,240.83 | $514.17 – $1,175.79 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $695.61 | $171.88 – $1,940.12 |