Insertion/replacement temporary single chamber electrode/pacemaker catheter at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$8,955.05
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.
$20,923.00
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.
$299.06 with Partnership Health Plan vs $26,177.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $299.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $299.06 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $367.84 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $367.84 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $471.42 | ↓ -95% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $471.42 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $9,303.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $9,394.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9,997.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,997.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,997.00 | ↑ +12% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $10,515.46 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10,760.40 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,466.00 | ↑ +39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,347.20 | ↑ +60% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15,030.40 | ↑ +68% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,201.20 | ↑ +70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $15,713.60 | ↑ +75% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $15,884.40 | ↑ +77% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16,738.40 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,909.20 | ↑ +89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18,024.00 | ↑ +101% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $18,087.00 | ↑ +102% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $20,480.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $26,177.00 | ↑ +192% |
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Insertion/replacement temporary single chamber electrode/pacemaker catheter at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5,581.00 | $367.84 – $20,488.56 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $16,525.53 | $7,716.00 – $15,313.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8,369.60 | $299.06 – $16,738.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $6,370.02 | $299.06 – $13,712.03 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $15,840.09 | $7,745.00 – $46,622.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $12,452.16 | $9,008.00 – $46,622.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $8,326.26 | $6,323.17 – $11,149.80 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $12,488.88 | $9,031.00 – $46,797.00 |