Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$90.64
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.
$176.00
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.
$18.86 with Allcare vs $123.14 with MultiPlan — 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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| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $18.86 | ↓ -79% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.69 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $22.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $23.97 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.15 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.15 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $26.12 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $26.84 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $28.71 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $28.71 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.71 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $30.65 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $46.85 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $49.80 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $78.60 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $85.15 | ↓ -6% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $85.15 | ↓ -6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $89.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $89.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $90.39 | ↓ -0% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $104.80 | ↑ +16% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $123.14 | ↑ +36% |
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Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $59.13 | $15.34 – $44.31 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $148.18 | $20.25 – $370.44 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $66.78 | $11.29 – $106.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $66.06 | $22.90 – $105.07 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $18.10 – $37.04 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $18.10 – $37.04 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $52.91 | $15.39 – $37.04 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $245.07 | $21.69 – $229.32 |