Ventilator initial day at Dominican Hospital
1555 Soquel Dr, Santa Cruz, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1427181007
$4,466.25
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.
$9,925.00
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.
$44.80 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $20,963.00 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 | $44.80 | ↓ -99% |
| COSC Psych | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.80 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $67.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $67.77 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $670.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $713.00 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $905.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $908.26 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $908.26 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $908.26 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $908.26 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $947.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|DHMF | $1,035.42 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,157.00 | ↓ -74% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,842.85 | ↓ -36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,451.25 | ↑ +44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $6,947.50 | ↑ +56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $7,940.00 | ↑ +78% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $8,436.25 | ↑ +89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,436.25 | ↑ +89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $8,734.00 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,583.00 | ↑ +271% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,458.00 | ↑ +291% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20,963.00 | ↑ +369% |
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Ventilator initial day at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,585.91 | $67.77 – $6,385.86 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $967.09 | $73.92 – $1,934.18 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,967.80 | $832.54 – $849.53 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,492.68 | $44.80 – $1,484.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,855.81 | $44.80 – $4,202.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,614.65 | $44.80 – $1,392.58 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4,938.39 | $44.80 – $10,788.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $4,885.14 | $44.80 – $12,607.00 |