Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$77.04
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.
$180.00
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.
$4.81 with Kaiser vs $15.00 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.81 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.03 | ↓ -93% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.03 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.03 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.77 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.77 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.77 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.77 | ↓ -93% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $7.50 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.61 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.61 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9.45 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $9.45 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.41 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.41 | ↓ -84% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.60 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $13.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $13.80 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $14.55 | ↓ -81% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.70 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.00 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $15.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.00 | ↓ -81% |
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Sodium serum/plasma/whole blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $92.42 | $4.81 – $15.01 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $19.41 | $0.96 – $30.07 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $143.82 | $4.71 – $39.13 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $53.28 | $4.81 – $78.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $70.56 | $4.05 – $14.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $33.02 | $4.81 – $25.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $32.67 | $4.81 – $25.28 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $168.81 | $4.81 – $49.45 |