Cath left heart/lv gram at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$587.62
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.
$1,141.00
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.
$684.60 with Healthsmart vs $28,252.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $684.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $741.65 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $741.65 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $787.29 | ↑ +34% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|> 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $875.40 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $877.29 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $877.29 | ↑ +49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $912.80 | ↑ +55% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $967.53 | ↑ +65% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,072.54 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,129.59 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $1,141.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,086.77 | ↑ +595% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,086.77 | ↑ +595% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $13,590.00 | ↑ +2213% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $14,225.00 | ↑ +2321% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,877.00 | ↑ +2602% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15,877.00 | ↑ +2602% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15,877.00 | ↑ +2602% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $16,193.00 | ↑ +2656% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,881.00 | ↑ +2943% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18,005.00 | ↑ +2964% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25,258.00 | ↑ +4198% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $28,252.00 | ↑ +4708% |
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Cath left heart/lv gram at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $4,051.07 | $1,076.74 – $7,425.74 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $6,476.50 | $875.40 – $14,829.36 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5,758.88 | $875.40 – $14,397.18 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $5,756.77 | $875.40 – $12,391.94 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $10,397.37 | $4,603.09 – $17,909.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,667.74 | $762.86 – $16,193.52 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $10,594.23 | $4,511.03 – $12,568.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $6,182.88 | $3,544.22 – $15,436.00 |