Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
155 Glasson Way, Grass Valley, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659361392
$3,824.27
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.
$7,017.00
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.
$384.05 with Partnership Health Plan vs $6,876.66 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 |
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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $384.05 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $384.05 | ↓ -90% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $469.30 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $828.27 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $828.27 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $867.95 | ↓ -77% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $867.95 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,342.15 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,882.70 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,882.70 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,882.70 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,165.00 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,488.00 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,110.00 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,701.39 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,403.09 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,104.79 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,104.79 | ↑ +60% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,666.15 | ↑ +74% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,876.66 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,876.66 | ↑ +80% |
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Upper Back (Thoracic Spine) MRI (with contrast) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,686.30 | $453.77 – $3,003.00 |
| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $4,995.20 | $476.00 – $476.00 |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $4,995.20 | $476.00 – $476.00 |
| Baldwin Park Medical Center | BALDWIN PARK | $2,860.00 | $324.00 – $324.00 |
| Riverside Medical Center | RIVERSIDE | $2,860.00 | $324.00 – $324.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,597.78 | $71.43 – $2,728.61 |
| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $4,995.20 | $476.00 – $476.00 |
| Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | $4,995.20 | $476.00 – $476.00 |