Cell count w differential body fluid at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$237.15
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.
$527.00
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.
$5.60 with Blue Shield CA vs $120.97 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.
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 | Medicare|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $6.38 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.72 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.97 | ↓ -97% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.97 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.54 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.54 | ↓ -96% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.53 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $50.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.34 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $58.09 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $58.09 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $60.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $60.72 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.92 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $85.80 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $86.57 | ↓ -63% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $92.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $105.60 | ↓ -55% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $112.20 | ↓ -53% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $112.20 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $120.97 | ↓ -49% |
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Cell count w differential body fluid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $99.87 | $5.60 – $17.48 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $11.76 | $0.82 – $8.02 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $218.28 | $5.49 – $45.01 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $141.24 | $5.60 – $15.68 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $97.24 | $5.60 – $143.08 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $129.36 | $4.32 – $16.96 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $230.40 | $5.60 – $68.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $227.91 | $5.60 – $67.94 |