Warde bile acids at Mercy San Juan Medical Center
6501 Coyle Avenue, Carmichael, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1972541498
$4.05
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.
$14.75
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.
$1.63 with WCMG vs $50.56 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WCMG | Commercial|All Plans | $1.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $4.58 | ↑ +13% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $5.17 | ↑ +28% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $5.90 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.05 | ↑ +49% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.20 | ↑ +53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.97 | ↑ +97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO Tandem | $8.12 | ↑ +100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $8.71 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $9.15 | ↑ +126% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|PPO | $9.74 | ↑ +140% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $11.07 | ↑ +173% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.07 | ↑ +173% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $11.80 | ↑ +191% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.80 | ↑ +191% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.25 | ↑ +202% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $13.91 | ↑ +243% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.56 | ↑ +260% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.75 | ↑ +264% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $15.20 | ↑ +275% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $16.23 | ↑ +301% |
| BlueShield | Medicare|Trauma | $18.44 | ↑ +355% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.13 | ↑ +446% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $37.92 | ↑ +836% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.56 | ↑ +1148% |
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Warde bile acids at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3.51 | $2.16 – $45.43 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.14 | $3.42 – $24.02 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $28.82 | $16.78 – $141.18 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3.43 | $4.00 – $44.12 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5.33 | $4.34 – $8.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7.42 | $4.00 – $49.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7.34 | $4.00 – $49.21 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $28.82 | $17.12 – $178.42 |