Shave sgl skin lsn t/a/l 1.1-2.0cm at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$258.09
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.
$603.00
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.
$44.86 with Partnership Health Plan vs $14,472.00 with Aetna — 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 | $44.86 | ↓ -83% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $44.86 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $55.18 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $55.18 | ↓ -79% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $70.72 | ↓ -73% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $70.72 | ↓ -73% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $213.16 | ↓ -17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $252.47 | ↓ -2% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $331.65 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $379.89 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $506.52 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $530.64 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $536.67 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $554.76 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $560.79 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $590.94 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $596.97 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,385.00 | ↑ +437% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $2,012.00 | ↑ +680% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,832.00 | ↑ +1385% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $4,339.00 | ↑ +1581% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $5,343.00 | ↑ +1970% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,160.00 | ↑ +2674% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14,472.00 | ↑ +5507% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,472.00 | ↑ +5507% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14,472.00 | ↑ +5507% |
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Shave sgl skin lsn t/a/l 1.1-2.0cm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $282.20 | $55.18 – $544.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $140.53 | $44.86 – $206.78 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $236.38 | $44.86 – $590.94 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $202.57 | $44.86 – $436.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $200.39 | $44.86 – $431.34 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $292.23 | $1,333.00 – $8,222.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $322.82 | $44.86 – $922.32 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $444.24 | $76.26 – $559.58 |