Apheresis plasma at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$3,532.95
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.
$7,851.00
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.
$1,121.46 with BCBS - Anthem vs $23,352.00 with Aetna — 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,121.46 | ↓ -68% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,232.44 | ↓ -65% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,232.44 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,379.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,379.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2,252.14 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,252.14 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,252.14 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,252.14 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $2,567.44 | ↓ -27% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,103.15 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $5,338.68 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,280.80 | ↑ +78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,296.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $6,581.00 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,617.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,673.35 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,673.35 | ↑ +89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $6,840.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7,049.20 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,065.90 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7,536.96 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,536.96 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7,851.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,045.00 | ↑ +128% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $8,328.00 | ↑ +136% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $8,425.00 | ↑ +138% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,244.00 | ↑ +162% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,253.00 | ↑ +162% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +556% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +561% |
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Apheresis plasma at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,230.31 | $1,121.46 – $5,106.78 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,511.95 | $1,041.39 – $3,779.86 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $949.39 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $986.13 | $1,121.46 – $2,559.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $12,260.91 | $2,211.33 – $7,455.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,487.49 | $2,003.11 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,334.36 | $877.59 – $3,510.36 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $2,901.90 | $2,167.10 – $4,737.00 |