Piflu f-18, dia 1 millicurie at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$747.27
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.
$1,451.00
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.
$870.60 with Healthsmart vs $1,451.00 with United — 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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| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $870.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $943.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $943.15 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,001.19 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,160.80 | ↑ +55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.94 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,436.49 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,451.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,451.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,451.00 | ↑ +94% |
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Piflu f-18, dia 1 millicurie at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,043.47 | $1,219.00 – $2,389.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $955.70 | $658.26 – $2,389.24 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $9,384.00 | $346.49 – $736.26 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $9,384.00 | $346.49 – $878.23 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $731.70 | $1,056.90 – $1,463.40 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $790.80 | $710.99 – $1,421.98 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $591.87 | $406.50 – $1,333.32 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $382.23 | $153.45 – $1,395.00 |