Radiation treatment aid(s) at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$567.96
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.
$1,327.00
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.
$49.26 with Partnership Health Plan vs $11,311.00 with Cigna — 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 | $49.26 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.26 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $53.75 | ↓ -91% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $53.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $74.53 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $74.53 | ↓ -87% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $154.43 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $168.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $315.79 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $315.79 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $315.79 | ↓ -44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $360.00 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $453.60 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $551.96 | ↓ -3% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $604.80 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $633.60 | ↑ +12% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $662.40 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $669.60 | ↑ +18% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $705.60 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $720.00 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $720.00 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $720.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,311.00 | ↑ +1892% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11,311.00 | ↑ +1892% |
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Radiation treatment aid(s) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $390.70 | $74.53 – $776.04 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $461.00 | $49.26 – $9,050.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $914.43 | $190.84 – $396.43 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $446.76 | $172.87 – $449.56 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $584.48 | $49.26 – $1,988.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $911.88 | $187.03 – $337.27 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $530.88 | $146.94 – $319.81 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $421.79 | $49.26 – $819.00 |