Herpes simplex 1 ag if at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$15.52
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.
$36.26
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.
$11.98 with United vs $30.88 with Cigna — 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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| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.98 | ↓ -23% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $12.13 | ↓ -22% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.74 | ↓ -11% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.74 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $14.38 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.38 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14.38 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.38 | ↓ -7% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -7% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $15.28 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $15.28 | ↓ -2% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.37 | ↑ +31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $21.34 | ↑ +38% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.92 | ↑ +41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.92 | ↑ +41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.31 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $23.53 | ↑ +52% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $23.77 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.25 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $24.25 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $24.25 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $24.25 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $30.88 | ↑ +99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.88 | ↑ +99% |
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Herpes simplex 1 ag if at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $14.22 | $6.55 – $36.30 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $28.22 | $10.10 – $23.77 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $62.13 | $11.98 – $111.72 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $13.20 | $7.98 – $41.72 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $10.43 | $6.07 – $72.45 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $9.49 | $4.85 – $72.45 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $7.91 | $4.85 – $26.73 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $30.97 | $10.10 – $93.79 |