Urine Culture Test at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
155 Glasson Way, Grass Valley, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659361392
$160.23
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.
$294.00
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.
$8.07 with Humana vs $279.30 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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| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.10 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.10 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.68 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.68 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.41 | ↓ -94% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.31 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.31 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $53.00 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $53.00 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $85.81 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $98.58 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $123.28 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $190.95 | ↑ +19% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $219.45 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $222.30 | ↑ +39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $236.55 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $247.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $247.95 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $265.05 | ↑ +65% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $270.75 | ↑ +69% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $279.30 | ↑ +74% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $279.30 | ↑ +74% |
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Urine Culture Test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $190.53 | $8.07 – $25.18 |
| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Baldwin Park Medical Center | BALDWIN PARK | $139.36 | $5.00 – $5.00 |
| Riverside Medical Center | RIVERSIDE | $139.36 | $5.00 – $5.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $13.95 | $1.61 – $13.58 |
| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |