Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$929.06
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.
$1,804.00
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.
$245.19 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $9,131.00 with Health Net — 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $245.19 | ↓ -74% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $371.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $475.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $482.95 | ↓ -48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $482.95 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $512.67 | ↓ -45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $594.40 | ↓ -36% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $698.42 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $735.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $743.00 | ↓ -20% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $817.30 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -5% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,266.00 | ↑ +144% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,116.00 | ↑ +343% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,322.00 | ↑ +473% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,322.00 | ↑ +473% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,322.00 | ↑ +473% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,416.00 | ↑ +483% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $8,022.00 | ↑ +763% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8,557.00 | ↑ +821% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $9,131.00 | ↑ +883% |
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Injection sacroiliac joint anesthesia/steroid without or w/arthrography (both sides) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $334.20 | $206.01 – $1,526.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,184.28 | $879.92 – $2,277.52 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,622.71 | $1,018.77 – $3,859.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,052.13 | $612.63 – $2,223.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $659.64 | $460.62 – $1,364.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $652.53 | $460.62 – $1,347.74 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $986.96 | $322.77 – $1,291.08 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,314.05 | $72.24 – $294.98 |