Pegaspargase injection at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$16,050.00
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.
$37,500.00
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.
$2,952.12 with BCBS - Anthem vs $44,666.37 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $2,952.12 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,962.12 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,875.00 | ↑ +5% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18,750.00 | ↑ +17% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $21,548.59 | ↑ +34% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $21,548.59 | ↑ +34% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $21,972.26 | ↑ +37% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $23,625.00 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31,500.00 | ↑ +96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $34,500.00 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $35,575.73 | ↑ +122% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $36,115.61 | ↑ +125% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $36,750.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $37,500.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $40,961.76 | ↑ +155% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $40,961.76 | ↑ +155% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $44,666.37 | ↑ +178% |
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Pegaspargase injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $17,924.72 | $1,780.12 – $46,568.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $14,700.00 | $10,125.00 – $36,750.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $28,999.96 | $6,342.10 – $27,074.99 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $28,687.29 | $2,660.44 – $24,824.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $46,524.80 | $1,791.47 – $58,201.64 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $20,229.20 | $1,913.18 – $13,721.40 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $20,926.80 | $2,448.94 – $122,228.63 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $11,936.74 | $3,299.78 – $124,274.20 |