Dactinomycin 0.5 mg intravenous solution at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$60.75
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.
$135.00
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.
$23.83 with BCBS - Anthem vs $1,128.38 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.83 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $33.29 | ↓ -45% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $87.75 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $91.80 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $108.00 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $114.75 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $114.75 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $153.90 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $166.05 | ↑ +173% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $166.05 | ↑ +173% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $416.17 | ↑ +585% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $422.55 | ↑ +596% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $823.08 | ↑ +1255% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $875.50 | ↑ +1341% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $1,128.38 | ↑ +1757% |
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Dactinomycin 0.5 mg intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,446.23 | $17.32 – $4,356.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,722.77 | $26.80 – $288.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,693.42 | $25.89 – $67.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,761.95 | $16.38 – $63.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $536.90 | $21.46 – $624.69 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $3,703.37 | $18.62 – $72.60 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $3,818.82 | $29.24 – $321.10 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $8,142.42 | $45.20 – $752.25 |