Metoprolol tartrate 5 mg/5 ml intravenous (wrapper) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$11.70
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.
$26.00
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.
$7.54 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $26.00 with United — 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.54 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $16.90 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $17.68 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.10 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.40 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.66 | ↑ +102% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24.96 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $24.96 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $26.00 | ↑ +122% |
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Metoprolol tartrate 5 mg/5 ml intravenous (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $24.30 – $52.92 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $9.47 | $5.72 – $22.62 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $11.18 | $5.20 – $26.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $10.17 | $5.46 – $26.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $8.48 | $4.16 – $20.80 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $18.32 | $11.00 – $46.75 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $0.27 – $0.27 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $0.34 – $0.34 |