Platelets leukoreduced cmv negative apheresis/phresis each unit at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,623.41
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.
$3,793.00
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.
$288.74 with BCBS - Anthem vs $7,391.00 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 |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $288.74 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $488.74 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $488.74 | ↓ -70% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $488.74 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $488.74 | ↓ -70% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $591.89 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $739.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $739.41 | ↓ -54% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,896.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,389.59 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,186.12 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,337.84 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,489.56 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,717.14 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,793.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $3,793.00 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +334% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,168.00 | ↑ +342% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +355% |
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Platelets leukoreduced cmv negative apheresis/phresis each unit at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,486.86 | $288.74 – $3,717.14 |
| Providence Saint John's Health Center | Santa Monica | not published | $250.49 – $839.41 |