17-ketosteroids at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$11.78
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.
$26.16
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.
$12.04 with Blue Shield CA vs $121.93 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $12.04 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $12.04 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.80 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $14.59 | ↑ +24% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.65 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $15.36 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.36 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.36 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15.36 | ↑ +30% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.32 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.32 | ↑ +39% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.32 | ↑ +39% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.01 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18.32 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.93 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.72 | ↑ +84% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.24 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.24 | ↑ +89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.69 | ↑ +110% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.69 | ↑ +110% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.16 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.16 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.16 | ↑ +122% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $40.06 | ↑ +240% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $114.62 | ↑ +873% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $121.93 | ↑ +935% |
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17-ketosteroids at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $18.78 | $2.56 – $29.10 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $11.20 | $12.80 – $32.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $10.26 | $7.07 – $38.77 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $10.85 | $12.80 – $36.78 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $10.74 | $12.80 – $36.78 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $16.70 | $2.62 – $20.93 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $8.60 | $5.50 – $26.16 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $20.36 | $11.38 – $25.64 |