Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous mammographic guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,307.54
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.
$3,055.00
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.
$215.93 with Partnership Health Plan vs $7,160.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $215.93 | ↓ -83% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $215.93 | ↓ -83% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $215.93 | ↓ -83% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $215.93 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $326.68 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $326.68 | ↓ -75% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $744.19 | ↓ -43% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,629.65 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,866.69 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,058.68 | ↑ +57% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,488.92 | ↑ +90% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,607.44 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,637.07 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,725.96 | ↑ +108% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,755.59 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,903.74 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,933.37 | ↑ +124% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,782.00 | ↑ +266% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +309% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $5,416.00 | ↑ +314% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +424% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +424% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +424% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +448% |
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Placement localization device(s) breast percutaneous mammographic guidance 1st lesion (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,409.49 | $326.68 – $3,763.88 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $509.99 | $356.28 – $947.69 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $934.14 | $215.93 – $2,058.68 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $910.44 | $215.93 – $2,058.68 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $900.62 | $215.93 – $2,058.68 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,628.54 | $2,345.04 – $7,455.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,929.95 | $2,124.23 – $8,018.00 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $1,900.26 | $3,331.00 – $25,998.00 |