Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptococcus neoformans at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$9.90
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.
$22.00
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.
$9.20 with Blue Shield CA vs $127.79 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 | $9.20 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9.20 | ↓ -7% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.10 | ↑ +2% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.10 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.10 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.20 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↑ +36% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $14.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.28 | ↑ +54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.28 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $15.30 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $16.00 | ↑ +62% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.10 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.10 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.10 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.10 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.60 | ↑ +68% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $17.00 | ↑ +72% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $17.00 | ↑ +72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20.00 | ↑ +102% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $20.00 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20.00 | ↑ +102% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.00 | ↑ +324% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $120.13 | ↑ +1113% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $127.79 | ↑ +1191% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptococcus neoformans at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $9.64 | $5.40 – $35.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $53.08 | $10.00 – $34.57 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $88.58 | $10.10 – $19.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $48.61 | $5.40 – $40.64 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $8.17 | $10.00 – $38.55 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $8.08 | $10.00 – $38.55 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $12.57 | $2.00 – $16.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $69.68 | $4.20 – $20.00 |