Dialysis circuit perm vascular embolization 36909 at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$278.55
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.
$619.00
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.
$402.35 with Kaiser vs $15,214.00 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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| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $402.35 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $420.92 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $495.20 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $526.15 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $526.15 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $557.10 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $594.24 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $594.24 | ↑ +113% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $619.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $619.00 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $619.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $619.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $761.37 | ↑ +173% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $761.37 | ↑ +173% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9,146.00 | ↑ +3183% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9,218.00 | ↑ +3209% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,272.00 | ↑ +3229% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11,908.00 | ↑ +4175% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $12,446.00 | ↑ +4368% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,953.00 | ↑ +4550% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,214.00 | ↑ +5362% |
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Dialysis circuit perm vascular embolization 36909 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,291.67 | $796.23 – $3,142.49 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,572.90 | $1,806.03 – $3,601.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,440.60 | $992.25 – $3,601.50 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,284.41 | $1,806.03 – $3,462.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,270.56 | $1,806.03 – $3,462.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,759.10 | $2,747.00 – $10,575.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,427.71 | $2,699.00 – $21,319.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,016.36 | $725.97 – $3,457.00 |