Natalizumab 300 mg/15 ml intravenous solution at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$5,455.91
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.
$10,594.00
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.
$11.59 with BCBS - Anthem vs $9,958.36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $11.59 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.25 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $24.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.37 | ↓ -100% |
| Allcare | Commercial|All Plans | $27.43 | ↓ -99% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $30.65 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $33.42 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $33.42 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $34.15 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.15 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $38.36 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $39.40 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $39.40 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.40 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $40.98 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $46.78 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $52.64 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $127.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $127.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $127.26 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,356.40 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,886.10 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,886.10 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7,309.86 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8,475.20 | ↑ +55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $9,958.36 | ↑ +83% |
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Natalizumab 300 mg/15 ml intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $16,050.00 | $17.88 – $36,750.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7,821.43 | $17.41 – $16,865.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $7,737.10 | $16.11 – $16,654.78 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $16,220.00 | $10.92 – $52.40 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $16,220.00 | $13.03 – $52.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,061.21 | $24.07 – $14,116.30 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $9,568.35 | $14.83 – $18,073.55 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $5,457.80 | $19.99 – $19,562.00 |