Parathyroid planar img w/tomo spect at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$967.71
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.
$2,261.00
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.
$311.86 with Partnership Health Plan vs $1,772.15 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 | $311.86 | ↓ -68% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $311.86 | ↓ -68% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $326.76 | ↓ -66% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $326.76 | ↓ -66% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $449.10 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $471.82 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $471.82 | ↓ -51% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -47% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $754.00 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $950.04 | ↓ -2% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,266.72 | ↑ +31% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,387.36 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $1,462.76 | ↑ +51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,477.84 | ↑ +53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,508.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,508.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,508.00 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,508.00 | ↑ +56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,772.15 | ↑ +83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,772.15 | ↑ +83% |
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Parathyroid planar img w/tomo spect at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,406.42 | $471.82 – $2,504.58 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $886.32 | $311.86 – $2,083.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $375.46 | $311.86 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $371.41 | $311.86 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,699.32 | $311.86 – $2,369.80 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,511.04 | $437.05 – $951.22 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $598.29 | $184.56 – $769.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $563.41 | $311.86 – $503.00 |