Whole blood for transfusion at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital
155 Glasson Way, Grass Valley, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1659361392
$376.60
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.
$691.00
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.
$254.85 with Partnership Health Plan vs $26,911.00 with United — 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 | $254.85 | ↓ -32% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $254.85 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $295.83 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $349.14 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $462.97 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $469.88 | ↑ +25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $532.07 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $538.98 | ↑ +43% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $575.96 | ↑ +53% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $575.96 | ↑ +53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $601.17 | ↑ +60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $601.17 | ↑ +60% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $656.45 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $670.27 | ↑ +78% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $677.18 | ↑ +80% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $677.18 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $18,227.00 | ↑ +4740% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26,911.00 | ↑ +7046% |
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Whole blood for transfusion at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $146.73 | $90.45 – $571.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $873.71 | $254.85 – $1,639.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $864.29 | $254.85 – $1,618.71 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $306.00 | not published |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $511.27 | $254.85 – $1,232.46 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $229.50 | not published |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $640.30 | $183.12 – $747.74 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,158.24 | $167.13 – $1,952.00 |