Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$173.04
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.
$336.00
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.
$8.00 with Blue Shield CA vs $26.00 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -95% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.15 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9.98 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.22 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $11.40 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.19 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.19 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $15.60 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.90 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $17.03 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.41 | ↓ -87% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.44 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.00 | ↓ -85% |
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Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $8.00 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $145.35 | $14.84 – $17.52 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $104.44 | $10.61 – $66.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $123.09 | $8.15 – $90.16 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $127.26 | $4.41 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $125.89 | $9.75 – $26.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $191.76 | $16.06 – $17.52 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $191.76 | $15.95 – $19.16 |