Event monitor at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$511.65
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.
$1,137.00
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.
$42.77 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 | $42.77 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.77 | ↓ -92% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $42.77 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $51.23 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $51.23 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $51.23 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $51.23 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $58.40 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $64.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $64.71 | ↓ -87% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $160.35 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $665.91 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $739.05 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $795.90 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $909.60 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $930.51 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $966.45 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $966.45 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,011.93 | ↑ +98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $4,988.00 | ↑ +875% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,074.00 | ↑ +1087% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $6,144.00 | ↑ +1101% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,748.00 | ↑ +1219% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,583.00 | ↑ +3141% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,458.00 | ↑ +3312% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20,963.00 | ↑ +3997% |
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Event monitor at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $15.32 | $5.96 – $23.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $549.59 | $42.77 – $1,373.96 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,170.45 | $48.00 – $1,333.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $89.28 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $496.35 | $42.77 – $3,827.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $51.84 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $58.56 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $50.97 | $8.78 – $183.93 |