Bronchial allergy tests at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$870.30
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.
$1,934.00
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.
$73.40 with BCBS - Anthem vs $20,963.00 with United — 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 | $73.40 | ↓ -92% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $111.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $111.04 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $728.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $728.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $728.97 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $728.97 | ↓ -16% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $831.03 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,031.42 | ↑ +19% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,257.10 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,353.80 | ↑ +56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,441.26 | ↑ +66% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,547.20 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,643.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,643.90 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,721.26 | ↑ +98% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,281.68 | ↑ +162% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,583.00 | ↑ +1805% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,458.00 | ↑ +1906% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20,963.00 | ↑ +2309% |
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Bronchial allergy tests at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $737.46 | $479.94 – $768.53 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,225.35 | $80.38 – $1,543.50 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $492.93 | $39.06 – $1,493.17 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $798.53 | $93.97 – $1,543.50 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $392.19 | $38.07 – $1,439.20 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $699.82 | $38.07 – $1,475.18 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $492.93 | $73.40 – $1,799.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $518.12 | $38.07 – $1,493.17 |