Lactated ringers intravenous solution at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$48.80
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.
$114.00
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.
$3.48 with Health Net vs $30.00 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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| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.48 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.98 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.98 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.08 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.27 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.84 | ↓ -86% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.84 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $13.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $13.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13.57 | ↓ -72% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $15.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $18.90 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $25.11 | ↓ -49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.20 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $25.67 | ↓ -47% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $27.60 | ↓ -43% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $28.51 | ↓ -42% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $29.40 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $30.00 | ↓ -39% |
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Lactated ringers intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $3.48 – $18.45 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $65.33 | $4.61 – $14.49 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $44.69 | $2.30 – $29.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $20.04 | $2.30 – $43.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $19.82 | $3.18 – $42.66 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $65.33 | $4.61 – $15.69 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $65.33 | $4.92 – $18.71 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $65.33 | $4.82 – $36.95 |