Insert picvad cath at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$4,467.90
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.
$10,439.00
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.
$388.34 with Partnership Health Plan vs $12,466.00 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 | $388.34 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $388.34 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $426.78 | ↓ -90% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $426.78 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $477.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $477.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,486.00 | ↑ +0% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $5,741.45 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $6,515.00 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,576.57 | ↑ +47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,743.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8,743.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8,743.00 | ↑ +96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,768.76 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9,186.32 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,290.71 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $9,303.00 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $9,603.88 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,708.27 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10,230.22 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10,334.61 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,466.00 | ↑ +179% |
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Insert picvad cath at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,289.87 | $477.66 – $7,477.22 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,092.09 | $388.34 – $10,230.22 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4,891.64 | $388.34 – $10,002.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $4,838.90 | $388.34 – $9,877.37 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $3,225.77 | $0.80 – $7,232.40 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $6,271.16 | $388.34 – $4,675.77 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $3,957.62 | $388.34 – $14,185.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $6,977.70 | $384.10 – $11,365.73 |