Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$100.43
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.
$195.00
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.
$23.52 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $145.70 with MultiPlan — 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $23.52 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.40 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.40 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $35.67 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.67 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $35.67 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $38.74 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $43.19 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $46.45 | ↓ -54% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.80 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $51.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $59.17 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $61.12 | ↓ -39% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $93.00 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $96.52 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $99.53 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $99.53 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $99.53 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $100.75 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.75 | ↑ +0% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $106.95 | ↑ +6% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $124.00 | ↑ +23% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $145.70 | ↑ +45% |
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Acetazolamide 500 mg solution for injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $65.70 | $18.09 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $186.68 | $38.12 – $40.98 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $213.15 | $24.30 – $54.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $103.10 | $14.58 – $52.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $73.83 | $22.89 – $84.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $73.04 | $31.45 – $90.92 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $186.68 | $38.12 – $43.79 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $186.68 | $34.45 – $52.23 |