Manipulation chest wall initial demonstration/evaluation at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$42.80
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.
$100.00
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.
$26.80 with CenCal vs $7,391.00 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.80 | ↓ -37% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.46 | ↓ -17% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $53.65 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $53.65 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $84.00 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $88.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $92.00 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $97.00 | ↑ +127% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $98.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $100.00 | ↑ +134% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $133.01 | ↑ +211% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↑ +283% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $699.00 | ↑ +1533% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $699.00 | ↑ +1533% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $746.00 | ↑ +1643% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,086.00 | ↑ +2437% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +16358% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,169.00 | ↑ +16650% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +17169% |
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Manipulation chest wall initial demonstration/evaluation at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $260.18 | $40.03 – $594.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $53.84 | $25.78 – $107.67 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $534.48 | $164.65 – $182.96 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $185.82 | $35.46 – $273.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $64.29 | $26.80 – $1,149.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $306.82 | $35.46 – $727.76 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $303.51 | $35.46 – $12,607.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $786.93 | $188.91 – $208.08 |