Buprenorphine hydrochloride at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$32.96
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.
$64.00
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.
$1.39 with BCBS - Anthem vs $24.44 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1.39 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.82 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2.88 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.45 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5.45 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.50 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.50 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6.54 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.75 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.10 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.10 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.10 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7.46 | ↓ -77% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.80 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $15.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.90 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -46% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $21.83 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $21.83 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.83 | ↓ -34% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.44 | ↓ -26% |
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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $24.49 | $2.89 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $24.23 | $1.93 – $20.54 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $58.84 | $1.77 – $111.14 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $47.69 | $2.59 – $107.42 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $43.65 | $3.32 – $71.10 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $55.10 | $3.76 – $135.20 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $18.09 | $1.55 – $41.50 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $29.97 | $1.65 – $73.80 |