Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$312.87
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.
$731.00
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.
$18.30 with CenCal vs $7,391.00 with United — 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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| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $20.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $20.84 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $31.52 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $31.52 | ↓ -90% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $176.50 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $207.13 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $222.39 | ↓ -29% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $224.42 | ↓ -28% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $277.60 | ↓ -11% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $296.52 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $310.64 | ↓ -1% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $324.76 | ↑ +4% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $345.94 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $699.00 | ↑ +123% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $699.00 | ↑ +123% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $746.00 | ↑ +138% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $1,086.00 | ↑ +247% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,044.00 | ↑ +2151% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,169.00 | ↑ +2191% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,391.00 | ↑ +2262% |
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Treatment inhalation pressurized/nonpressurized acute airway obstruction at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $394.64 | $28.01 – $546.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $433.50 | $115.41 – $301.12 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $259.74 | $20.84 – $370.44 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $272.44 | $18.30 – $1,149.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $335.02 | $20.84 – $794.64 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $331.41 | $20.84 – $12,607.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $518.67 | $145.85 – $310.92 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $317.22 | $165.39 – $281.64 |