Aminophylline 25 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$12.24
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.
$27.20
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.
$3.71 with Blue Shield CA vs $33.50 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|DHMF | $3.71 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5.49 | ↓ -55% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.54 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.46 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.53 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.53 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10.13 | ↓ -17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $16.90 | ↑ +38% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $17.68 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18.39 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.39 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $18.39 | ↑ +50% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↑ +70% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $22.01 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↑ +81% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↑ +81% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $26.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $26.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.00 | ↑ +112% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $31.49 | ↑ +157% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.50 | ↑ +174% |
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Aminophylline 25 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $2.86 – $52.26 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $4.74 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $8.53 – $52.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $18.55 | $6.94 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $18.35 | $2.00 – $8.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $87.59 | $2.89 – $23.76 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $87.59 | $3.45 – $23.76 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $19.11 | $7.68 – $53.30 |