Lithium therapeutic drug level at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
155 Glasson Way, Grass Valley, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659361392
$93.20
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.
$171.00
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.
$6.61 with Humana vs $165.62 with Healthsmart — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.93 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.93 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.43 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.65 | ↓ -88% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.05 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.05 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.39 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $43.39 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $43.39 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $71.22 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $81.82 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $102.32 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $113.23 | ↑ +21% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $130.13 | ↑ +40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $131.82 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $140.27 | ↑ +51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $147.03 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $147.03 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $157.17 | ↑ +69% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $160.55 | ↑ +72% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $165.62 | ↑ +78% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $165.62 | ↑ +78% |
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Lithium therapeutic drug level at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $139.29 | $6.61 – $20.63 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $12.52 | $1.32 – $19.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $97.92 | $6.48 – $53.91 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $122.41 | $6.61 – $22.54 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $85.92 | $6.61 – $16.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $112.12 | $6.21 – $22.54 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $57.51 | $6.61 – $55.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $56.89 | $6.61 – $54.51 |