Bone marrow imaging body at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$1,057.81
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.
$2,054.00
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.
$193.38 with BCBS - Anthem vs $941.00 with Aetna — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.38 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.38 | ↓ -82% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $483.69 | ↓ -54% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $602.24 | ↓ -43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $611.65 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $611.65 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $639.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $649.29 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $752.80 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $837.49 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -20% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $884.54 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $941.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $941.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $941.00 | ↓ -11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $941.00 | ↓ -11% |
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Bone marrow imaging body at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $821.69 | $506.52 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,444.66 | $80.37 – $2,088.41 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $705.28 | $510.57 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $697.67 | $221.97 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $526.26 | $187.95 – $848.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,408.18 | $228.70 – $1,773.80 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $2,557.83 | $329.98 – $5,762.14 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $507.31 | $210.20 – $1,364.43 |