Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$4,017.00
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.
$7,800.00
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.
$145.60 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $859.10 with Allcare — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $145.60 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $170.64 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $220.63 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $224.53 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $314.50 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $354.59 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $421.28 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $421.28 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $421.28 | ↓ -90% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $468.60 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $476.28 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $476.28 | ↓ -88% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $507.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $507.65 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $538.89 | ↓ -87% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $624.80 | ↓ -84% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $734.14 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $760.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $760.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $760.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $781.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $781.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $781.00 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $781.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $781.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $859.10 | ↓ -79% |
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Carmustine 100 mg intravenous powder for solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $12,406.41 | $145.60 – $31,016.02 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $5,102.74 | $145.60 – $784.50 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $3,600.00 | $145.60 – $6,800.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $628.77 | $241.80 – $666.83 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $3,787.51 | $88.11 – $4,097.49 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $2,628.29 | $145.60 – $883.96 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $3,013.42 | $145.60 – $4,097.49 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $3,787.51 | $88.11 – $4,097.49 |