Inj., benralizumab, 1 mg at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$16,050.00
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.
$37,500.00
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.
$177.07 with CenCal vs $36,750.00 with MultiPlan — 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $177.07 | ↓ -99% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $177.07 | ↓ -99% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $207.52 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $213.63 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $253.80 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $253.80 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $273.72 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $273.72 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $276.28 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $279.68 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $298.20 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $298.20 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $373.48 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $501.26 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $551.96 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $626.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18,750.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $23,625.00 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31,500.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $34,500.00 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $36,750.00 | ↑ +129% |
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Inj., benralizumab, 1 mg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $8,546.73 | $120.35 – $18,429.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $8,454.58 | $213.63 – $18,199.23 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,530.73 | $172.68 – $15,425.84 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $5,962.16 | $167.76 – $10,882.38 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $6,808.50 | $167.76 – $12,860.50 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $3,883.68 | $140.78 – $13,920.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $11,041.16 | $178.22 – $19,853.82 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $3,304.40 | $167.76 – $7,443.96 |