Etoposide 50 mg cap at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$142.66
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.
$277.00
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.
$46.50 with BCBS - Anthem vs $186.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $46.50 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $46.50 | ↓ -67% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $55.80 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $56.35 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $74.15 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $90.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $90.40 | ↓ -37% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $98.03 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $108.48 | ↓ -24% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $111.60 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $117.10 | ↓ -18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $120.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $120.90 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $123.85 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $124.59 | ↓ -13% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $126.26 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $126.26 | ↓ -11% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $126.26 | ↓ -11% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $128.34 | ↓ -10% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $148.80 | ↑ +4% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $174.84 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $186.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $186.00 | ↑ +30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $186.00 | ↑ +30% |
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Etoposide 50 mg cap at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $93.30 | $52.43 – $166.14 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $303.46 | $86.95 – $694.82 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $105.00 | $47.91 – $152.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $67.92 | $40.30 – $252.47 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $255.15 | $72.13 – $481.95 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $76.45 | $54.80 – $274.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $147.15 | $80.31 – $182.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $41.66 | $76.84 – $164.39 |