Warde neutralization rabies at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$32.96
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.
$77.00
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.
$16.91 with BCBS - Anthem vs $77.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| MHS Hospice | Commercial|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16.91 | ↓ -49% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.39 | ↓ -41% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.39 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20.29 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $20.29 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.29 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20.29 | ↓ -38% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.56 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $32.62 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $32.62 | ↓ -1% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $38.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $43.56 | ↑ +32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.56 | ↑ +32% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $48.51 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $48.51 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $64.68 | ↑ +96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $67.76 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $70.84 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $74.69 | ↑ +127% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $75.46 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $77.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $77.00 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $77.00 | ↑ +134% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $77.00 | ↑ +134% |
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Warde neutralization rabies at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $49.05 | $3.38 – $24.80 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $51.29 | $16.91 – $75.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $30.19 | $16.91 – $75.46 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $34.14 | $16.91 – $73.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $33.77 | $16.91 – $72.68 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $52.54 | $9.20 – $73.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $27.05 | $14.37 – $75.44 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $59.91 | $15.03 – $75.46 |