Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at Mercy Hospital of Folsom

1650 Creekside Dr, Folsom, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1356389878

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$138.49

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.

Full explanation →

What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.

$356.00

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.

Full explanation →

The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.

$7.27 with Partnership Health Plan vs $327.52 with Blue Shield CA — same scan, same building. Share

Negotiated rates by payer
?

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
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $7.27 ↓ -95%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Other Plans $7.98 ↓ -94%
Hill Physicians Commercial|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|PPO $8.46 ↓ -94%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|HMO $8.46 ↓ -94%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
Hill Physicians Medicare|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
United Medicare|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $8.46 ↓ -94%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Imperial $8.71 ↓ -94%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $10.15 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $10.15 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|HMO $10.15 ↓ -93%
United Medicaid|> 21 $10.43 ↓ -92%
United Medicaid|< 21 $10.43 ↓ -92%
Hill Physicians Medicaid|All Plans $11.47 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial|LocalPlus $18.74 ↓ -86%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $19.61 ↓ -86%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $21.03 ↓ -85%
Health Net Medicaid|All Plans $24.61 ↓ -82%
California Health & Wellness Medicaid|All Plans $24.61 ↓ -82%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $24.99 ↓ -82%
WCMG Commercial|All Plans $39.16 ↓ -72%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $58.15 ↓ -58%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $58.15 ↓ -58%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $58.15 ↓ -58%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Connection EPO $110.36 ↓ -20%
Western Health Advantage Commercial|All Plans $124.60 ↓ -10%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $138.02 ↓ -0%
Kaiser Medicaid|All Plans $145.96 ↑ +5%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $193.20 ↑ +40%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $195.80 ↑ +41%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers $252.76 ↑ +83%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $256.32 ↑ +85%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $267.00 ↑ +93%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $267.00 ↑ +93%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $281.24 ↑ +103%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $284.80 ↑ +106%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $291.92 ↑ +111%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|PPO Tandem $309.72 ↑ +124%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $320.40 ↑ +131%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|HMO $320.40 ↑ +131%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|CalPers $327.52 ↑ +136%

Visitor-reported prices

visitor-reported
Report what you paid sign in to post

Comments

Add a comment sign in to post

Metabolic Blood Panel (Basic) at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $91.98 $8.46 – $26.40
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $69.49 $1.69 – $107.67
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $465.12 $8.29 – $69.08
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $279.92 $8.46 – $23.52
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $203.13 $8.46 – $20.73
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $256.37 $6.48 – $25.63
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $295.32 $8.46 – $75.20
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $292.14 $8.46 – $74.26

All California hospitals for this procedure →