Prgrmg dev eval pm/ldls pm at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$235.40
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.
$550.00
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.
$44.22 with MHS Hospice 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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| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $44.22 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $48.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $48.79 | ↓ -79% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $48.79 | ↓ -79% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $48.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.81 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.81 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $271.34 | ↑ +15% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $275.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $346.50 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $363.66 | ↑ +54% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $462.00 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $484.00 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $506.00 | ↑ +115% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $539.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,832.00 | ↑ +1528% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $4,339.00 | ↑ +1743% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +2892% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,169.00 | ↑ +2945% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +3040% |
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Prgrmg dev eval pm/ldls pm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $229.52 | $23.22 – $87.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $208.94 | $47.38 – $522.34 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $40.74 | $47.38 – $111.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $32.64 | $23.31 – $111.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $171.87 | $51.93 – $162.55 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $57.17 | $47.38 – $111.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $159.87 | $47.38 – $4,018.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $163.83 | $43.91 – $381.00 |