Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,868.22
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.
$4,365.00
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.
$57.25 with Partnership Health Plan vs $8,439.00 with Health Net — 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 | $57.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $57.25 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $70.42 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $70.42 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $90.24 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $90.24 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +10% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,281.95 | ↑ +22% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,613.87 | ↑ +40% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,485.16 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,651.12 | ↑ +95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,692.61 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,817.08 | ↑ +104% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,858.57 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,066.02 | ↑ +118% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,107.51 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +140% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +186% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +206% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +249% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +283% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,451.00 | ↑ +299% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8,439.00 | ↑ +352% |
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Incision & drainage hematoma/seroma/fluid collection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,125.66 | $70.42 – $3,763.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4,778.19 | $1,921.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $795.87 | $57.25 – $305.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,780.47 | $57.25 – $4,239.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,003.40 | $57.25 – $4,320.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,005.29 | $57.25 – $4,316.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $7,008.93 | $2,345.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,923.32 | $2,124.23 – $9,858.00 |