Susceptibility agar dilution per agent at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$27.22
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.
$63.58
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.
$1.66 with Partnership Health Plan vs $16.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.66 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.66 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.66 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.51 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.51 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.70 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.70 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.70 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.70 | ↓ -79% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -71% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $11.96 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $11.96 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.96 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.25 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.25 | ↓ -55% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.44 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $14.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $14.72 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $15.52 | ↓ -43% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $15.68 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16.00 | ↓ -41% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Susceptibility agar dilution per agent at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.93 | $0.95 – $15.52 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $105.06 | $4.66 – $18.41 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $24.93 | $1.66 – $17.64 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $23.59 | $0.76 – $13.66 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $23.34 | $0.76 – $13.66 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $109.14 | $4.75 – $23.27 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $66.30 | $4.75 – $26.38 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $36.31 | $0.16 – $1.22 |