Intro cath dialysis circuit w/pta at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$10,621.80
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.
$23,604.00
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.
$1,112.06 with BCBS - Anthem vs $24,517.57 with Sutter Health — 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 | $1,112.06 | ↓ -90% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,112.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,112.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,682.43 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,682.43 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7,833.09 | ↓ -26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7,833.09 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,833.09 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7,833.09 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $8,929.72 | ↓ -16% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $10,984.00 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,746.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $13,372.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $13,528.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,857.00 | ↑ +40% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $15,342.60 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $16,050.72 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16,409.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18,797.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $18,883.20 | ↑ +78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $19,646.00 | ↑ +85% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20,063.40 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $20,063.40 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21,243.60 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $22,659.84 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $22,659.84 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +118% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +120% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23,604.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24,015.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $24,517.57 | ↑ +131% |
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Intro cath dialysis circuit w/pta at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5,082.99 | $1,682.43 – $13,090.66 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $14,586.24 | $1,112.06 – $31,992.10 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $13,077.91 | $1,112.06 – $32,694.76 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $11,153.01 | $1,112.06 – $19,361.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $9,349.70 | $1,112.06 – $19,119.58 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $9,262.62 | $8,081.23 – $27,307.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,594.19 | $7,320.30 – $27,307.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $7,171.55 | $0.80 – $9,523.08 |