Lymph vessel x-ray arms/legs at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,964.33
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.
$6,926.00
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.
$186.19 with Partnership Health Plan vs $6,787.48 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 | $186.19 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.19 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.19 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.19 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $281.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $281.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,973.80 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $2,226.90 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,495.59 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,495.59 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,495.59 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,984.56 | ↑ +1% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,163.82 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,163.82 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,163.82 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,163.82 | ↑ +7% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,463.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,363.38 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,817.84 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,371.92 | ↑ +115% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,610.76 | ↑ +123% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,610.76 | ↑ +123% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,787.48 | ↑ +129% |
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Lymph vessel x-ray arms/legs at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $563.27 | $281.68 – $6,807.55 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,715.00 | $186.19 – $7,771.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,453.95 | $186.19 – $7,372.90 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,438.28 | $186.19 – $7,372.90 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $652.39 | $186.19 – $1,110.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,512.32 | $1,720.93 – $3,745.56 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,119.61 | $186.19 – $1,087.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,284.52 | $186.19 – $4,677.90 |