Replace picvad cath at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$4,594.50
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.
$10,210.00
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.
$479.51 with BCBS - Anthem 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $479.51 | ↓ -90% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $526.78 | ↓ -89% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $526.78 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $589.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $589.80 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4,324.22 | ↓ -6% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,324.22 | ↓ -6% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,324.22 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,324.22 | ↓ -6% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $4,929.61 | ↑ +7% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,296.00 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $6,581.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,636.50 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $6,942.80 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,045.00 | ↑ +75% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $8,168.00 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,678.50 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,678.50 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,189.00 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,272.00 | ↑ +102% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,801.60 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9,801.60 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10,210.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $11,420.00 | ↑ +149% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12,953.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13,534.81 | ↑ +195% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +404% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +408% |
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Replace picvad cath at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,911.87 | $589.80 – $7,477.22 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $4,093.89 | $474.10 – $6,668.39 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $2,541.70 | $1,142.00 – $7,332.00 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $4,879.40 | $302.41 – $14,780.64 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $3,882.15 | $302.41 – $14,246.40 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $6,927.32 | $302.41 – $14,602.56 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $4,879.40 | $479.51 – $17,808.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $5,128.71 | $302.41 – $14,780.64 |