Ionm remote/>1 pt or per hr at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$342.83
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.
$801.00
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.
$400.50 with Western Growers vs $7,044.00 with United — 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $400.50 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $493.94 | ↑ +44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $504.63 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $662.00 | ↑ +93% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $672.84 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $704.88 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $736.92 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $784.98 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,732.00 | ↑ +1864% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,840.00 | ↑ +1895% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +1955% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Ionm remote/>1 pt or per hr at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $96.36 | $59.40 – $171.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $314.00 | $216.27 – $784.98 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $691.92 | $384.63 – $1,492.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $684.46 | $270.64 – $1,865.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $721.77 | $337.64 – $2,013.10 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $958.50 | $278.84 – $1,207.36 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $914.64 | $235.78 – $1,776.00 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $229.62 | $92.18 – $838.00 |