Palingen or promatrx at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$1,462.60
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.
$2,840.00
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.
$653.20 with Health Net vs $2,840.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $653.20 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $710.00 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $710.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,278.00 | ↓ -13% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,562.00 | ↑ +7% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $1,618.80 | ↑ +11% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,846.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,846.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,846.00 | ↑ +26% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1,874.40 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,902.34 | ↑ +30% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,959.60 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,272.00 | ↑ +55% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,378.48 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,378.48 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,378.48 | ↑ +63% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,378.48 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,470.80 | ↑ +69% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,499.20 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,503.11 | ↑ +71% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,669.60 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,726.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,726.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,726.40 | ↑ +86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,840.00 | ↑ +94% |
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Palingen or promatrx at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,151.46 | $1,178.88 – $3,831.36 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $2,634.10 | $1,775.00 – $6,390.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,605.70 | $1,775.00 – $6,887.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,043.70 | $923.00 – $3,550.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $6,996.60 | $2,378.48 – $11,957.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $1,656.82 – $3,099.23 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $1,793.43 – $3,099.23 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $2,139.26 – $3,099.23 |