Uric acid blood at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$304.65
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.
$677.00
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.
$4.52 with Blue Shield CA vs $126.65 with Multiplan — 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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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $5.15 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.42 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.42 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.75 | ↓ -98% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.70 | ↓ -97% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14.15 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $40.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.09 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $47.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $47.70 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $68.54 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $68.54 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $71.03 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.44 | ↓ -73% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $96.85 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $99.25 | ↓ -67% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $104.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $119.20 | ↓ -61% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $126.65 | ↓ -58% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $126.65 | ↓ -58% |
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Uric acid blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $120.89 | $4.52 – $14.11 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.76 | $0.90 – $13.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $166.26 | $4.43 – $36.93 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $182.76 | $4.52 – $12.74 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $67.94 | $4.52 – $83.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $167.39 | $3.51 – $13.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $140.98 | $4.52 – $60.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $139.46 | $4.52 – $60.04 |