Cystoscopy & duct catheter at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
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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.
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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.
$174.31 with BCBS - Anthem vs $23,352.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $174.31 | — |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $214.40 | — |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $214.40 | — |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $274.77 | — |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $274.77 | — |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | — |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | — |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | — |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $917.01 | — |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $1,045.39 | — |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,870.24 | — |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $5,842.00 | — |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,113.00 | — |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $7,196.00 | — |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,903.00 | — |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8,426.00 | — |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $8,807.00 | — |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,272.00 | — |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,766.00 | — |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,953.00 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | — |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | — |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
| Western Growers | 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|HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | not published by hospital | — |
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Cystoscopy & duct catheter at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $714.18 | $174.31 – $1,540.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $706.48 | $174.31 – $1,520.75 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,699.91 | $174.31 – $2,358.72 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,005.80 | $174.31 – $842.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $214.40 – $1,569.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $939.68 – $2,695.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | not published | $174.31 – $848.09 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | not published | $174.31 – $174.31 |