Hemolysins/agglutinins auto at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$123.87
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.
$289.40
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.
$8.77 with Alignment vs $63.49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.77 | ↓ -93% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.06 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.06 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.46 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.46 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.52 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10.52 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.52 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $10.52 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.83 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $31.75 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $40.00 | ↓ -68% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $53.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $55.88 | ↓ -55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $58.42 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $60.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $60.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $60.17 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $61.59 | ↓ -50% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $62.23 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $63.49 | ↓ -49% |
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Hemolysins/agglutinins auto at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $448.95 | $8.77 – $49.53 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $66.09 | $8.77 – $97.25 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $113.45 | $8.77 – $62.23 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $35.06 | $8.77 – $75.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $34.69 | $8.77 – $74.66 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $53.96 | $8.77 – $75.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $27.79 | $7.45 – $77.49 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $73.53 | $7.29 – $62.23 |