Removal cerclage without anes at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$538.69
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.
$1,046.00
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.
$218.17 with Allcare vs $7,546.00 with Health Net — 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 | $218.17 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| LA Care | Medicare|All Plans | $255.61 | ↓ -53% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $345.18 | ↓ -36% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $523.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $627.60 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $679.90 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $679.90 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $721.74 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $836.80 | ↑ +55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $983.24 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,035.54 | ↑ +92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,046.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,046.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,046.00 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,266.00 | ↑ +321% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,629.00 | ↑ +1131% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7,112.00 | ↑ +1220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,112.00 | ↑ +1220% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7,112.00 | ↑ +1220% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7,546.00 | ↑ +1301% |
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Removal cerclage without anes at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,266.54 | $128.15 – $233.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $509.60 | $255.61 – $1,274.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $369.15 | $255.61 – $796.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $394.16 | $255.61 – $848.46 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $303.41 | $216.72 – $866.88 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $449.69 | $138.72 – $566.44 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $452.82 | $255.61 – $1,623.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $33.25 | $30.50 – $61.00 |