Mayo factor x at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$78.58
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.
$183.59
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.
$12.34 with Western Growers vs $46.14 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 | $12.34 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $15.55 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $15.55 | ↓ -80% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $17.90 | ↓ -77% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.54 | ↓ -74% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.54 | ↓ -74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.74 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $21.48 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $21.48 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.48 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.48 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $21.72 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.71 | ↓ -71% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.82 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $23.94 | ↓ -70% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.19 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.68 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $24.68 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $24.68 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $24.68 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.36 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.36 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $46.14 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.14 | ↓ -41% |
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Mayo factor x at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $10.81 | $6.67 – $47.51 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $41.12 | $3.58 – $66.93 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $93.87 | $17.54 – $146.19 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $16.44 | $13.36 – $24.19 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $71.97 | $6.67 – $54.24 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $10.39 | $12.34 – $51.46 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $10.28 | $12.34 – $51.46 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $93.87 | $17.90 – $184.74 |