Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,184.28
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.
$2,767.00
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.
$762.54 with MHS Hospice vs $7,160.00 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $762.54 | ↓ -36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -26% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,278.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,385.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,464.12 | ↑ +24% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,952.16 | ↑ +65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $2,012.00 | ↑ +70% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,045.12 | ↑ +73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,068.36 | ↑ +75% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,138.08 | ↑ +81% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,161.32 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,277.52 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,300.76 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,782.00 | ↑ +304% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +351% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $5,416.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +382% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,710.00 | ↑ +382% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,710.00 | ↑ +382% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +505% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $334.20 | $206.01 – $1,526.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,622.71 | $1,018.77 – $3,859.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,052.13 | $612.63 – $2,223.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $659.64 | $460.62 – $1,364.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $652.53 | $460.62 – $1,347.74 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $986.96 | $322.77 – $1,291.08 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,314.05 | $72.24 – $294.98 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $929.06 | $245.19 – $817.30 |