Glucose blood quantitative at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$247.50
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.
$550.00
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.
$3.93 with Blue Shield CA vs $93.50 with Multiplan — 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 | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $4.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.72 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.72 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.72 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.72 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.73 | ↓ -98% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.16 | ↓ -97% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.30 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $35.13 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.37 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $41.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $41.40 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $50.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $50.60 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $61.60 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $61.73 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $71.50 | ↓ -71% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $77.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $86.26 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $88.00 | ↓ -64% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $93.50 | ↓ -62% |
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Glucose blood quantitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $87.60 | $3.93 – $12.27 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $254.49 | $3.85 – $32.09 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $108.72 | $3.93 – $11.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $49.95 | $3.93 – $9.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $99.57 | $3.24 – $11.88 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $174.75 | $3.93 – $48.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $172.86 | $3.93 – $47.40 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $114.24 | $3.93 – $40.56 |