Mayo selenium at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$5.85
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.
$13.00
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.
$5.81 with Blue Shield CA vs $243.13 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 | $5.81 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5.81 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.07 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8.21 | ↑ +40% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $8.84 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $10.10 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.48 | ↑ +79% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.73 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $10.73 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.62 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $14.39 | ↑ +146% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.53 | ↑ +165% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.53 | ↑ +165% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.51 | ↑ +575% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $228.54 | ↑ +3807% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $243.13 | ↑ +4056% |
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Mayo selenium at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.70 | $3.51 – $67.72 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.51 | $4.92 – $37.44 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $56.61 | $25.02 – $208.45 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $39.81 | $6.50 – $65.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $61.94 | $7.04 – $13.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $36.46 | $3.51 – $77.31 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $10.32 | $6.50 – $73.34 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $10.20 | $6.50 – $73.34 |