Gonadotropin luteinizing hormone (lh) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$3.71
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.
$8.24
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.
$3.80 with Blue Shield CA vs $176.45 with Cigna — 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 | Commercial|ACO Trio | $3.80 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3.80 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.62 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.36 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $5.77 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6.60 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.84 | ↑ +84% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.01 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $7.01 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.24 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $9.40 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.14 | ↑ +173% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.14 | ↑ +173% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.80 | ↑ +595% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $165.86 | ↑ +4371% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $176.45 | ↑ +4656% |
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Gonadotropin luteinizing hormone (lh) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $83.22 | $2.23 – $49.15 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $329.46 | $18.15 – $151.19 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $93.74 | $4.12 – $47.73 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $111.23 | $4.47 – $8.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $85.85 | $2.23 – $56.11 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $111.30 | $4.12 – $53.23 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $110.10 | $4.12 – $53.23 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $426.36 | $18.52 – $191.06 |