Kidney imag w/bld flow multi at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,906.98
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.
$6,792.00
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.
$261.96 with Partnership Health Plan vs $5,747.70 with MultiPlan — 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 | $261.96 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $261.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $261.96 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $261.96 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $396.32 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $396.32 | ↓ -86% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $575.80 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $683.93 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,101.15 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,101.15 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,101.15 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,101.15 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,820.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,820.60 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,820.60 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,837.78 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,300.51 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,300.51 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,463.05 | ↓ -15% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,932.50 | ↑ +1% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,694.95 | ↑ +27% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,926.60 | ↑ +69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $5,395.80 | ↑ +86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,747.70 | ↑ +98% |
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Kidney imag w/bld flow multi at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,047.22 | $396.32 – $3,645.72 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,328.58 | $107.65 – $1,920.60 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,696.97 | $261.96 – $3,948.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,323.39 | $261.96 – $2,704.43 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,251.76 | $261.96 – $2,699.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,238.26 | $261.96 – $2,665.46 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,581.22 | $755.17 – $1,319.94 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,318.97 | $698.35 – $1,496.81 |