Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$2,511.00
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.
$5,580.00
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.
$773.64 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $23,352.00 with Aetna — 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 | $773.64 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $773.64 | ↓ -69% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $773.64 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,170.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,170.44 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2,814.37 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,814.37 | ↑ +12% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,814.37 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,814.37 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $3,208.38 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,627.00 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,794.40 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,464.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,743.00 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,743.00 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,022.00 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,356.80 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5,356.80 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5,580.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,296.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $6,581.00 | ↑ +162% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,617.00 | ↑ +164% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $8,010.00 | ↑ +219% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,045.00 | ↑ +220% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,808.98 | ↑ +251% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,244.00 | ↑ +268% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9,752.00 | ↑ +288% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $9,866.00 | ↑ +293% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,835.00 | ↑ +332% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +823% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +830% |
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Placement nephrostomy catheter (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,691.95 | $1,170.44 – $4,793.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,419.34 | $773.64 – $9,926.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,913.72 | $773.64 – $9,926.42 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,847.27 | $773.64 – $2,350.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,805.79 | $773.64 – $2,350.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,734.11 | $2,968.05 – $10,593.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,172.09 | $2,688.58 – $10,413.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,344.63 | $773.64 – $5,090.40 |