Cytarabine 20 mg/ml injection solution at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$512.43
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.
$995.00
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.
$1.16 with Blue Shield CA vs $59.22 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.16 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.16 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.30 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.30 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.30 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $1.39 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.45 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1.59 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.27 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.21 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.21 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $9.90 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.38 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.03 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $20.58 | ↓ -96% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $40.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.95 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $43.47 | ↓ -92% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↓ -90% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $59.22 | ↓ -88% |
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Cytarabine 20 mg/ml injection solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $37.23 | $1.16 – $25.50 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $34.67 | $1.30 – $79.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $31.76 | $1.16 – $79.38 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $376.57 | $0.61 – $50.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $372.51 | $1.30 – $49.77 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $225.74 | $1.63 – $9.34 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $225.74 | $1.61 – $11.14 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $243.73 | $1.10 – $51.66 |