Leuprolide 30 mg (4 month) intramuscular syringe kit at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$9,576.94
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.
$18,596.00
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.
$176.75 with Central California Alliance for Health vs $3,133.02 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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| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $176.75 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $196.82 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $196.82 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $197.48 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $298.30 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $298.30 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $298.30 | ↓ -97% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $309.25 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $331.20 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $381.78 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $542.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $542.03 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $650.44 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $742.58 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $819.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $899.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $899.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $899.70 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,078.59 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,703.41 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,999.80 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,166.45 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,166.45 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,299.77 | ↓ -76% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,666.40 | ↓ -72% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,133.02 | ↓ -67% |
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Leuprolide 30 mg (4 month) intramuscular syringe kit at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5,773.28 | $117.32 – $1,318.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $42,026.04 | $496.63 – $1,881.29 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $14,700.00 | $148.92 – $36,750.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $5,687.43 | $176.75 – $2,720.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,501.12 | $197.48 – $1,233.98 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,982.84 | $176.20 – $772.79 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,982.84 | $176.20 – $921.81 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $3,680.30 | $185.00 – $1,046.32 |