Cytopath smear other source at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$89.55
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.
$199.00
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.
$29.60 with United vs $448.30 with Cigna — 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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| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $33.65 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $33.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $33.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $33.65 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $38.36 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.83 | ↓ -49% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.83 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $69.34 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $69.34 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $75.58 | ↓ -16% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $105.32 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $105.61 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $129.35 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $139.30 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $159.20 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $169.15 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $169.15 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $199.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $199.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $421.41 | ↑ +371% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $448.30 | ↑ +401% |
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Cytopath smear other source at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $42.05 | $25.92 – $124.87 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $146.37 | $38.98 – $45.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $40.98 | $15.92 – $60.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $41.56 | $22.00 – $135.24 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $41.11 | $22.00 – $135.24 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $97.92 | $41.07 – $49.66 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $238.68 | $37.20 – $56.31 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $44.30 | $7.76 – $62.07 |