Hemoglobin at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$34.65
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.
$77.00
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.
$2.37 with Blue Shield CA vs $26.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $2.37 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $2.70 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.84 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2.84 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2.84 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2.84 | ↓ -92% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.97 | ↓ -91% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.97 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $2.97 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.49 | ↓ -87% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.42 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $11.96 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.96 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.56 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -51% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18.20 | ↓ -47% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $21.22 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.58 | ↓ -38% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↓ -36% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.57 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $25.00 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.00 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.00 | ↓ -25% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hemoglobin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.89 | $1.89 – $6.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.13 | $0.47 – $7.76 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $34.68 | $2.32 – $19.29 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $70.62 | $2.37 – $6.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $23.98 | $2.37 – $32.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $64.68 | $1.89 – $7.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $53.80 | $2.37 – $83.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $53.22 | $2.37 – $82.16 |