Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$531.58
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.
$1,242.00
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.
$210.39 with Partnership Health Plan vs $827.00 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 |
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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $210.39 | ↓ -60% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $210.39 | ↓ -60% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $210.39 | ↓ -60% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $210.39 | ↓ -60% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $262.99 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $315.59 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $315.59 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $315.59 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $315.59 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $318.30 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $318.30 | ↓ -40% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $413.50 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $521.01 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $521.01 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $677.61 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $677.61 | ↑ +27% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $694.68 | ↑ +31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $727.76 | ↑ +37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $760.84 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $802.19 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $810.46 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $827.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $827.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $827.00 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $827.00 | ↑ +56% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid multiplex amplified probe gi pathogen 6-11 targets at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $460.76 | $216.81 – $697.78 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $440.26 | $52.60 – $765.33 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,219.41 | $257.73 – $1,251.43 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $437.89 | $210.39 – $644.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $486.08 | $210.39 – $810.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $251.17 | $210.39 – $755.73 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $248.46 | $210.39 – $755.73 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,613.64 | $262.99 – $1,581.49 |