Membrane affinity fresh amniotic 2.5x2.5cm -cost per sq cm at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$2,103.20
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.
$4,914.00
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.
$175.45 with CenCal vs $4,815.72 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.45 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $265.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $265.43 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $434.53 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $434.53 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $593.44 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $883.74 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,433.58 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,924.04 | ↓ -9% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,457.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $2,850.12 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,095.82 | ↑ +47% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $3,243.24 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,783.78 | ↑ +80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $3,783.78 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4,127.76 | ↑ +96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,127.76 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,520.88 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,520.88 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,520.88 | ↑ +115% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,520.88 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $4,619.16 | ↑ +120% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,815.72 | ↑ +129% |
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Membrane affinity fresh amniotic 2.5x2.5cm -cost per sq cm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,151.46 | $265.43 – $1,740.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,683.22 | $167.70 – $809.15 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,926.29 | $175.45 – $4,815.72 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,448.62 | $176.69 – $875.87 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,856.26 | $160.06 – $1,044.76 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,346.00 | $167.67 – $2,063.13 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $2,856.26 | $470.35 – $1,047.32 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $3,683.22 | $173.16 – $869.96 |