Clip ligating vesolock lg at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$2,447.55
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.
$5,439.00
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.
$189.64 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $862.00 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $189.64 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $405.14 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $422.38 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $431.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $482.72 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $543.06 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $560.30 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $586.16 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $594.78 | ↓ -76% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $603.40 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $655.12 | ↓ -73% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $672.36 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $689.60 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $698.22 | ↓ -71% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $715.46 | ↓ -71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $732.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $732.70 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $758.56 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $775.80 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $793.04 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $793.04 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $862.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $862.00 | ↓ -65% |
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Clip ligating vesolock lg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $977.62 | $143.04 – $464.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $6,434.67 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,103.20 | $36.34 – $154.84 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,926.29 | $30.02 – $154.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,025.66 | $25.00 – $90.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,387.41 | $25.00 – $97.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $6,434.67 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,622.10 | not published |