Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$291.60
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.
$648.00
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.
$18.13 with BCBS - Anthem vs $648.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.13 | ↓ -94% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.13 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $63.39 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $63.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $63.39 | ↓ -78% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $63.39 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $67.44 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $72.26 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $74.68 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.13 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $76.13 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $182.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $182.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $198.41 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $382.32 | ↑ +31% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $388.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $388.80 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $395.28 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $414.72 | ↑ +42% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $440.64 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $466.56 | ↑ +60% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $518.40 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $531.36 | ↑ +82% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $550.80 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $550.80 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $648.00 | ↑ +122% |
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Hydration IV infusion each additional hour at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $240.90 | $19.93 – $1,951.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $55.53 | $9.23 – $80.51 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $642.60 | $63.10 – $99.20 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $93.74 | $18.13 – $995.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $438.90 | $18.13 – $611.52 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $85.85 | $18.13 – $185.22 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $140.61 | $18.13 – $310.78 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $139.10 | $18.13 – $310.78 |