Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$1,075.50
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.
$2,390.00
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.
$99.55 with BCBS - Anthem vs $12,953.00 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.
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 | $99.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $122.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $122.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $156.91 | ↓ -85% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $156.91 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | ↓ -15% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $1,045.39 | ↓ -3% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,553.50 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,625.20 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,912.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,031.50 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,031.50 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,151.00 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,294.40 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,294.40 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,390.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,870.24 | ↑ +167% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $5,842.00 | ↑ +443% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,296.00 | ↑ +485% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $6,581.00 | ↑ +512% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,113.00 | ↑ +561% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $7,196.00 | ↑ +569% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,903.00 | ↑ +635% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,045.00 | ↑ +648% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,146.00 | ↑ +750% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9,218.00 | ↑ +757% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,272.00 | ↑ +762% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,953.00 | ↑ +1104% |
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Cystoscopy (Bladder Scope) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,450.44 | $939.68 – $2,695.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $223.78 | $76.32 – $289.10 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,173.62 | $990.07 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,532.66 | $896.84 – $8,018.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,078.14 | $939.50 – $3,982.87 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $957.27 | $3,331.00 – $20,799.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $1,870.68 | $970.26 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,092.48 | $762.31 – $5,171.00 |