Troponin quantitative at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$309.45
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.
$723.00
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.
$12.15 with Partnership Health Plan vs $32.15 with Cigna — 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 | $12.15 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.15 | ↓ -96% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.15 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.15 | ↓ -96% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $12.47 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $14.96 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.96 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.96 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $15.17 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $19.12 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $19.12 | ↓ -94% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.49 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $26.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $27.92 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $29.43 | ↓ -90% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $29.74 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $30.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $30.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.34 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $30.34 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32.15 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $32.15 | ↓ -90% |
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Troponin quantitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $152.43 | $12.47 – $38.91 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $86.39 | $2.49 – $133.86 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $489.60 | $12.22 – $155.75 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $210.46 | $12.15 – $29.74 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $283.42 | $8.20 – $37.79 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $140.98 | $11.90 – $35.85 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $139.46 | $11.90 – $35.85 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $494.70 | $12.47 – $196.83 |