Apply short leg castambul type 29425 at Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

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Gross charge

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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.

$96.13 with BCBS - Anthem vs $9,244.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $96.13
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $118.24
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $118.24
COSC Psych Medicaid|All Plans $151.53
Central California Alliance for Health Medicaid|All Plans $151.53
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $364.87
United Medicare|All Plans $364.87
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $364.87
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $364.87
Blue Shield CA Commercial|DHMF $415.95
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $1,142.04
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $1,944.00
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $2,032.00
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $2,484.00
Health Net Commercial|Community Care $4,988.00
Health Net Commercial|Care Product $6,074.00
Health Net Commercial|Blue Gold $6,144.00
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $6,617.00
Health Net Commercial|All Other Plans $6,748.00
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $9,244.00
Western Growers Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
United Commercial|All Other Plans not published by hospital
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
First Health Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO not published by hospital
United Commercial|Options PPO not published by hospital
United Commercial|HMO not published by hospital

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Apply short leg castambul type 29425 at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $486.03 $376.92 – $1,687.00
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $540.09 $397.12 – $6,200.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $766.02 $359.73 – $8,018.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $328.44 $376.84 – $721.00
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $320.79 $1,333.00 – $8,222.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $519.69 $389.18 – $4,042.00
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo $1,443.36 $305.77 – $1,597.00
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Grass Valley $408.75 $96.13 – $735.00

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