Sevelamer carbonate 800 mg tablet at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$20.12
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.
$47.00
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.
$21.15 with Cigna vs $47.00 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.15 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $21.15 | ↑ +5% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $23.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $29.61 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.48 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $41.36 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.83 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $43.24 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $43.71 | ↑ +117% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $44.65 | ↑ +122% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $46.06 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $46.53 | ↑ +131% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $47.00 | ↑ +134% |
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Sevelamer carbonate 800 mg tablet at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6.57 | $4.05 – $11.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.43 | $12.69 – $46.06 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $13.36 | $1.60 – $4.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $13.22 | $1.00 – $4.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $15.99 | $0.80 – $6.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $8.53 | $2.08 – $8.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $18.03 | $1.00 – $3.96 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $17.10 | $11.02 – $34.58 |