Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at Mercy San Juan Medical Center
6501 Coyle Avenue, Carmichael, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972541498
$5,089.83
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.
$18,576.00
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.
$3.09 with Hill Physicians vs $15,418.08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $3.09 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.72 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.94 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $4.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4.33 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| BlueShield | Medicare|Trauma | $4.92 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.91 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.27 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $6.61 | ↓ -100% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.38 | ↓ -100% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.12 | ↓ -100% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $8.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO Tandem | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $13.47 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.87 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -100% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $24.52 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $49.73 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.17 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $86.94 | ↓ -98% |
| WCMG | Commercial|All Plans | $2,043.36 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $7,616.16 | ↑ +50% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10,031.04 | ↑ +97% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $13,932.00 | ↑ +174% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13,932.00 | ↑ +174% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,860.80 | ↑ +192% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $15,418.08 | ↑ +203% |
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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $16,050.00 | $3.81 – $9,102.24 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,051.75 | $1,962.30 – $7,433.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $580.95 | $3.81 – $1,452.36 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $6,783.63 | $3.81 – $2,796.60 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $8,626.41 | $3.07 – $42.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $8,626.41 | $3.07 – $50.12 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $8,626.41 | $5.99 – $50.24 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,265.03 | $7.38 – $1,593.48 |