Chlamydia type at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$11.59
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.
$22.50
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.
$5.57 with Health Net vs $22.50 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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| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.53 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.68 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.68 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.68 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.68 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.99 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.99 | ↓ -40% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.10 | ↓ -39% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.78 | ↓ -24% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $13.50 | ↑ +16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.63 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.63 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $15.30 | ↑ +32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.34 | ↑ +32% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $15.53 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.03 | ↑ +73% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.15 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $22.50 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.50 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $22.50 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $22.50 | ↑ +94% |
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Chlamydia type at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $15.07 | $1.11 – $8.17 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $34.98 | $5.46 – $45.56 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $9.63 | $5.57 – $16.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8.82 | $4.52 – $16.87 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $8.35 | $5.57 – $18.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $8.26 | $5.57 – $17.78 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $34.98 | $5.57 – $57.58 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $34.98 | $5.57 – $65.29 |