Percut ablate liver rf at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$6,601.05
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.
$15,423.00
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.
$553.98 with Partnership Health Plan vs $19,451.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $553.98 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $553.98 | ↓ -92% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $553.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $553.98 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $838.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $838.12 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7,413.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $7,643.35 | ↑ +16% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8,755.11 | ↑ +33% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,997.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9,997.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,997.00 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $11,609.00 | ↑ +76% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,673.48 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12,229.36 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,368.33 | ↑ +87% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12,785.24 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12,924.21 | ↑ +96% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $13,146.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13,393.00 | ↑ +103% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13,619.06 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $13,758.03 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $13,961.00 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $18,708.00 | ↑ +183% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $19,451.00 | ↑ +195% |
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Percut ablate liver rf at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $4,900.35 | $838.12 – $13,082.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $6,045.82 | $553.98 – $13,619.06 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7,389.95 | $553.98 – $15,935.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,310.28 | $553.98 – $15,736.01 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $11,847.32 | $553.98 – $15,274.56 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $7,270.56 | $6,682.00 – $15,575.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $10,285.44 | $6,609.22 – $15,436.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $8,075.64 | $753.41 – $10,172.40 |