Unlisted transfusion med px at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$118.92
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.
$277.83
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.
$25.00 with Western Growers vs $65.01 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $25.00 | ↓ -79% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $28.05 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $31.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $31.50 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $37.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $37.00 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.00 | ↓ -69% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $44.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $46.00 | ↓ -61% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $49.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65.01 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $65.01 | ↓ -45% |
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Unlisted transfusion med px at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $347.78 | $29.60 – $114.66 |
| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $198.24 | not published |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $198.24 | not published |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $208.29 | $4.90 – $291.97 |
| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $198.24 | not published |
| Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | $198.24 | not published |
| Walnut Creek Medical Center | WALNUT CREEK | $198.24 | not published |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $32.64 | $12.68 – $48.02 |