Edetate calcium disodium inj at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$6,163.52
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.
$11,968.00
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.
$53.78 with BCBS - Anthem vs $8,201.17 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $53.78 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.76 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $90.75 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $90.75 | ↓ -99% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $108.90 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $111.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $217.80 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $235.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $235.95 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $250.47 | ↓ -96% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $290.40 | ↓ -95% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $341.22 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $363.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $399.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8,201.17 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8,201.17 | ↑ +33% |
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Edetate calcium disodium inj at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,717.72 | $78.52 – $302.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,255.50 | $92.75 – $4,500.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $4,250.55 | $229.55 – $13,121.87 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $5,254.47 | $291.16 – $14,134.55 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $6,558.47 | $40.92 – $15,026.03 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $5,218.05 | $106.47 – $15,026.03 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $9,311.11 | $38.31 – $15,026.03 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $6,893.57 | $152.52 – $15,026.03 |