Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$3,629.70
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.
$8,066.00
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.
$239.76 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $20,963.00 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $239.76 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $239.76 | ↓ -93% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $239.76 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $362.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $362.73 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $753.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $753.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $753.29 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $753.29 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $858.75 | ↓ -76% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,357.80 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,497.51 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,887.25 | ↑ +35% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,242.90 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $5,646.20 | ↑ +56% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $5,842.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,452.80 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,856.10 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,856.10 | ↑ +89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,113.00 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7,178.74 | ↑ +98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $7,196.00 | ↑ +98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,903.00 | ↑ +118% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,583.00 | ↑ +357% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,458.00 | ↑ +381% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20,963.00 | ↑ +478% |
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Echocardiogram (Heart Ultrasound) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,409.00 | $362.73 – $4,290.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,141.65 | $61.91 – $395.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,472.48 | $736.35 – $1,818.47 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,912.74 | $239.76 – $4,379.62 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,962.04 | $239.76 – $2,064.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,751.85 | $239.76 – $2,408.84 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,231.20 | $239.76 – $4,811.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,207.14 | $239.76 – $4,751.06 |