Infect ag if varicella zoster at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$25.80
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.
$60.28
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.
$13.42 with Kaiser vs $36.26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -48% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -44% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.10 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.10 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.10 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.10 | ↓ -38% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18.13 | ↓ -30% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.92 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.92 | ↓ -15% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $22.85 | ↓ -11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $22.85 | ↓ -11% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $30.46 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $31.91 | ↑ +24% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $33.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $34.57 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.57 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $35.18 | ↑ +36% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $35.54 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $36.26 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $36.26 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.26 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $36.26 | ↑ +41% |
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Infect ag if varicella zoster at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $26.41 | $13.42 – $47.02 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $40.15 | $13.42 – $59.08 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $23.63 | $9.80 – $40.64 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $22.37 | $13.42 – $48.23 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $22.13 | $13.42 – $47.63 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $34.42 | $6.03 – $48.23 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $17.73 | $11.41 – $49.43 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $46.90 | $10.10 – $35.54 |