Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$4,558.95
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.
$10,131.00
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.
$3.77 with Blue Shield CA vs $1,612.42 with First Health — 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $3.77 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.11 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.11 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.83 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.38 | ↓ -100% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $8.32 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.85 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.17 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $11.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.86 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.04 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.15 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $15.61 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $18.95 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $19.23 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.19 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $57.05 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $79.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,233.03 | ↓ -73% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,289.94 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,517.57 | ↓ -67% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,612.42 | ↓ -65% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,612.42 | ↓ -65% |
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Darbepoetin alfa, esrd use at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $3.01 – $38.81 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $3.07 – $42.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $3.07 – $50.12 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $3.07 – $98.97 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | not published | $5.99 – $50.24 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $3.01 – $41.73 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | not published | $2.61 – $6.28 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | not published | $3.07 – $7.90 |