Echo guidance radiotherapy at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$808.65
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.
$1,797.00
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.
$113.42 with BCBS - Anthem vs $1,797.00 with United — 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 | $113.42 | ↓ -86% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $113.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $113.42 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $171.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $171.60 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $597.84 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $597.84 | ↓ -26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.05 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,257.90 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,437.60 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,491.51 | ↑ +84% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,527.45 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,527.45 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,617.30 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,725.12 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,725.12 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,797.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,797.00 | ↑ +122% |
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Echo guidance radiotherapy at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,843.36 | $1,864.30 – $1,864.30 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $578.93 | $113.42 – $2,075.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $241.50 | $113.93 – $1,001.33 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $472.15 | $90.96 – $1,003.34 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $2,388.48 | $286.59 – $1,970.94 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $1,460.64 | $281.08 – $1,928.76 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $244.96 | $31.22 – $742.02 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $194.90 | $31.22 – $715.20 |