Instillation anticarcinogenic agent bladder at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$386.49
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.
$903.00
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.
$114.50 with Partnership Health Plan 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $114.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $114.50 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $114.50 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $114.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $173.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $173.23 | ↓ -55% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $286.57 | ↓ -26% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $496.65 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $520.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $520.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $520.17 | ↑ +35% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $568.89 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $758.52 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $794.64 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $803.67 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $830.76 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $839.79 | ↑ +117% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +119% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $884.94 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $893.97 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,385.00 | ↑ +258% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $2,012.00 | ↑ +421% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,832.00 | ↑ +891% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $4,339.00 | ↑ +1023% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +1282% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +1753% |
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Instillation anticarcinogenic agent bladder at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $694.51 | $133.49 – $965.15 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $125.21 | $46.31 – $175.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $364.56 | $114.50 – $911.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $286.63 | $114.50 – $781.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $697.17 | $313.00 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $637.50 | $896.84 – $8,018.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $971.04 | $297.38 – $4,042.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $421.79 | $114.50 – $819.00 |