Heparin assay at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$59.58
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.
$139.20
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.
$13.09 with Kaiser vs $45.00 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 | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -78% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.02 | ↓ -75% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.02 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.71 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.71 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $15.71 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15.71 | ↓ -74% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.45 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.45 | ↓ -72% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $22.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.88 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.88 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $28.35 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $28.35 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $33.73 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.73 | ↓ -43% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $39.60 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $41.40 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $43.65 | ↓ -27% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $44.10 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $45.00 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $45.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $45.00 | ↓ -24% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Heparin assay at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $98.55 | $13.09 – $48.05 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $38.74 | $2.62 – $40.74 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $316.71 | $12.83 – $90.79 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $117.89 | $13.09 – $44.10 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $54.57 | $12.15 – $44.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $128.74 | $11.50 – $37.62 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $127.35 | $12.00 – $37.62 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $311.10 | $13.09 – $114.73 |