Microdissection manual at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$69.45
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.
$162.26
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.
$81.13 with Western Growers vs $489.51 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 | $81.13 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $102.23 | ↑ +47% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $112.83 | ↑ +62% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $112.83 | ↑ +62% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $112.83 | ↑ +62% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $112.83 | ↑ +62% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $136.30 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $149.28 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $157.40 | ↑ +127% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $159.02 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $162.26 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $170.70 | ↑ +146% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $170.70 | ↑ +146% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $216.06 | ↑ +211% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $489.51 | ↑ +605% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $489.51 | ↑ +605% |
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Microdissection manual at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $63.61 | $43.82 – $575.46 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $431.79 | $102.24 – $417.48 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $64.25 | $37.35 – $564.15 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $58.42 | $82.17 – $564.15 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $48.71 | $37.35 – $477.27 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $281.39 | $112.83 – $426.00 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $49.76 | $43.33 – $564.15 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $324.12 | $112.83 – $417.48 |