Sevelamer carbonate 800 mg tablet at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$17.10
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.
$38.00
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.
$11.02 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $38.00 with United — 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 | $11.02 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $24.70 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $25.84 | ↑ +51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $30.40 | ↑ +78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $32.30 | ↑ +89% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $32.30 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.20 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.58 | ↑ +102% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $36.48 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $36.48 | ↑ +113% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $38.00 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $38.00 | ↑ +122% |
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Sevelamer carbonate 800 mg tablet at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6.57 | $4.05 – $11.70 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $20.12 | $21.15 – $46.06 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.43 | $12.69 – $46.06 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $13.36 | $1.60 – $4.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $13.22 | $1.00 – $4.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $15.99 | $0.80 – $6.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $8.53 | $2.08 – $8.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $18.03 | $1.00 – $3.96 |