Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe cns pathogen 12-25 targets at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,215.95
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.
$2,841.00
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.
$143.00 with Western Growers vs $1,073.89 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $143.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $180.18 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $180.18 | ↓ -85% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $240.24 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $251.68 | ↓ -79% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $263.12 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $277.42 | ↓ -77% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $280.28 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $286.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $351.78 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $351.78 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $500.14 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,073.89 | ↓ -12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,073.89 | ↓ -12% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe cns pathogen 12-25 targets at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $125.27 | $77.22 – $1,105.85 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $195.30 | $83.36 – $611.28 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,008.78 | $408.44 – $2,727.24 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $190.48 | $154.82 – $286.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,113.68 | $77.22 – $1,262.44 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $764.64 | $143.00 – $1,197.69 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $531.79 | $143.00 – $1,197.69 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $793.56 | $416.78 – $3,446.56 |