Lactoferrin fecal qualitative at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$41.95
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.
$98.00
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.
$12.50 with Western Growers vs $50.78 with Cigna — 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 | $12.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $15.75 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $15.75 | ↓ -62% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.76 | ↓ -62% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.76 | ↓ -62% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.70 | ↓ -53% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $21.00 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $22.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $23.00 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.64 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.64 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.64 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.64 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $24.25 | ↓ -42% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.50 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $25.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $25.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.78 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $50.78 | ↑ +21% |
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Lactoferrin fecal qualitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $40.74 | $19.70 – $61.47 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $30.05 | $3.94 – $46.56 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $87.21 | $19.31 – $74.30 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $16.65 | $13.54 – $24.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $38.42 | $6.75 – $59.69 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $27.46 | $12.50 – $56.63 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $27.16 | $12.50 – $56.63 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $71.91 | $19.70 – $93.90 |