Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$895.59
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.
$1,739.00
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.
$67.30 with BCBS - Anthem vs $14,950.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $67.30 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $67.30 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Plan of San Joaquin | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Inland Empire Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.68 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $156.99 | ↓ -82% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $241.70 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $258.43 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $544.07 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $715.84 | ↓ -20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $745.00 | ↓ -17% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $993.60 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,048.00 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,076.40 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,076.40 | ↑ +20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,131.27 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,142.64 | ↑ +28% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,324.80 | ↑ +48% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,556.64 | ↑ +74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,656.00 | ↑ +85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,362.00 | ↑ +945% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,722.00 | ↑ +986% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14,950.00 | ↑ +1569% |
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Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $4,508.78 | $51.47 – $4,014.66 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $488.88 | $40.68 – $977.76 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,532.77 | $295.10 – $415.86 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $4,133.63 | $54.94 – $3,407.46 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,244.09 | $72.68 – $3,198.72 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $3,217.93 | $54.94 – $2,839.06 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4,340.33 | $72.68 – $5,353.92 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $4,293.54 | $72.68 – $12,607.00 |