Repair blood vessel dir lower extr at Dominican Hospital

1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$1,957.50

Cash price

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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.

$4,350.00

Gross charge

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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.

$610.50 with BCBS - Anthem vs $27,018.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $610.50 ↓ -69%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $750.91 ↓ -62%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $750.91 ↓ -62%
Central California Alliance for Health Medicaid|All Plans $962.37 ↓ -51%
COSC Psych Medicaid|All Plans $962.37 ↓ -51%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $966.63 ↓ -51%
United Medicare|All Plans $966.63 ↓ -51%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $966.63 ↓ -51%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $966.63 ↓ -51%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|DHMF $1,101.96 ↓ -44%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $2,827.50 ↑ +44%
Western Growers Commercial|All Plans $2,958.00 ↑ +51%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $3,025.55 ↑ +55%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $3,480.00 ↑ +78%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $3,697.50 ↑ +89%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $3,697.50 ↑ +89%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $3,915.00 ↑ +100%
United Commercial|HMO $4,176.00 ↑ +113%
United Commercial|Options PPO $4,176.00 ↑ +113%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $4,350.00 ↑ +122%
Health Net Commercial|Community Care $5,842.00 ↑ +198%
Health Net Commercial|Care Product $7,113.00 ↑ +263%
Health Net Commercial|Blue Gold $7,196.00 ↑ +268%
Health Net Commercial|All Other Plans $7,903.00 ↑ +304%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $11,529.00 ↑ +489%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $11,908.00 ↑ +508%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $12,446.00 ↑ +536%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $15,214.00 ↑ +677%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $16,016.00 ↑ +718%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $26,811.00 ↑ +1270%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $27,018.00 ↑ +1280%

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Repair blood vessel dir lower extr at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $1,313.76 $954.29 – $3,632.00
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $843.37 $610.50 – $2,298.00
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $1,259.70 $1,005.45 – $10,575.00
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $990.42 $910.78 – $11,036.00
Healdsburg Hospital Healdsburg $661.98 $954.10 – $6,323.17
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $993.48 $3,331.00 – $46,797.00
Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital Santa Rosa $1,259.70 $985.34 – $5,318.00
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo Mission Viejo $907.20 $774.16 – $9,779.00

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