Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptosporidium at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$6.75
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.
$15.00
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.
$6.90 with Blue Shield CA vs $131.60 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 | $6.90 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.90 | ↑ +2% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.40 | ↑ +24% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $9.75 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $10.50 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.00 | ↑ +78% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.36 | ↑ +83% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.36 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.36 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.45 | ↑ +84% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.75 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.75 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.82 | ↑ +105% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $13.82 | ↑ +105% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13.82 | ↑ +105% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.82 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $15.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $15.75 | ↑ +133% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.45 | ↑ +173% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.45 | ↑ +173% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $43.26 | ↑ +541% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $123.71 | ↑ +1733% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $131.60 | ↑ +1850% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptosporidium at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $167.76 | $4.05 – $36.66 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $13.39 | $2.76 – $23.28 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $105.06 | $13.54 – $73.37 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $38.10 | $7.50 – $35.60 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $9.99 | $8.12 – $14.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $34.89 | $4.05 – $41.85 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $24.12 | $5.50 – $39.70 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $23.86 | $7.50 – $39.70 |