Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$1,525.95
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.
$3,391.00
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.
$920.70 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 | $920.70 | ↓ -40% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $920.70 | ↓ -40% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $920.70 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,392.93 | ↓ -9% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,392.93 | ↓ -9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,204.15 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,225.98 | ↑ +46% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,225.98 | ↑ +46% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2,225.98 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,225.98 | ↑ +46% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,305.88 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $2,537.62 | ↑ +66% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,712.80 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,882.35 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,882.35 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,051.90 | ↑ +100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,255.36 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,255.36 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,391.00 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care | $5,842.00 | ↑ +283% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,296.00 | ↑ +313% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $6,581.00 | ↑ +331% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,617.00 | ↑ +334% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,967.32 | ↑ +357% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,113.00 | ↑ +366% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Blue Gold | $7,196.00 | ↑ +372% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,903.00 | ↑ +418% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,045.00 | ↑ +427% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,244.00 | ↑ +506% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23,174.00 | ↑ +1419% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23,352.00 | ↑ +1430% |
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Sclerotherapy fluid collection pq w/img at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,970.57 | $819.99 – $3,763.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,272.02 | $920.70 – $2,773.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,165.03 | $601.56 – $2,183.44 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,657.76 | $920.70 – $3,796.80 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,056.54 | $2,238.00 – $4,042.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,896.16 | $1,805.60 – $5,171.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,478.98 | $456.24 – $1,901.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,052.15 | $801.49 – $2,043.00 |