N. gonorrhoeae assay w/optic at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$24.83
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.
$58.00
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.
$14.49 with Partnership Health Plan vs $63.27 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -42% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -42% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.49 | ↓ -42% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.92 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.92 | ↓ -12% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $23.00 | ↓ -7% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $24.56 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $28.98 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $28.98 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.47 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.47 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $29.47 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.47 | ↑ +19% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $38.64 | ↑ +56% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $40.48 | ↑ +63% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $42.32 | ↑ +70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $44.62 | ↑ +80% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.08 | ↑ +82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $46.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $46.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $46.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $63.27 | ↑ +155% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.27 | ↑ +155% |
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N. gonorrhoeae assay w/optic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.04 | $12.42 – $74.37 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $24.07 – $73.37 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $24.56 – $92.72 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $24.56 – $105.14 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $24.56 – $41.94 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | not published | $105.39 – $105.39 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $24.07 – $78.88 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | not published | $20.88 – $49.12 |