Histochemical stains add-on at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$39.46
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.
$76.62
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.
$43.80 with Healthsmart vs $73.00 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 |
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| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $43.80 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $47.45 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $47.45 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $49.64 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $50.37 | ↑ +28% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $58.40 | ↑ +48% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|> 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $62.01 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $64.97 | ↑ +65% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $68.62 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $73.00 | ↑ +85% |
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Histochemical stains add-on at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $63.27 | $24.58 – $93.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $113.58 | $7.00 – $227.73 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $112.35 | $7.00 – $227.73 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $43.76 | $7.30 – $58.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $90.00 | $15.33 – $464.21 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $272.62 | $6.00 – $25.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $117.74 | $62.01 – $422.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $88.29 | $44.22 – $66.00 |