Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$173.70
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.
$386.00
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.
$2.70 with Kaiser vs $46.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $3.08 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3.24 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.24 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.24 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3.24 | ↓ -98% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.44 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.44 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $21.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $21.16 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $24.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.76 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.79 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $28.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $28.50 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $29.90 | ↓ -83% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $32.20 | ↓ -81% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $36.80 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.18 | ↓ -78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.10 | ↓ -77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.10 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $46.00 | ↓ -74% |
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Sedimentation rate erythrocyte automated at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $5.36 | $0.54 – $8.73 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $85.17 | $2.65 – $21.32 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $150.66 | $2.70 – $6.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $115.22 | $2.70 – $169.54 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $137.99 | $1.89 – $8.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $103.14 | $2.70 – $131.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $102.03 | $2.70 – $129.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $207.57 | $2.70 – $26.95 |