Special pump services at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$7,541.15
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.
$14,643.00
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.
$2,266.00 with Health Net vs $14,950.00 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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| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,266.00 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $8,785.80 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,362.00 | ↑ +24% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9,517.95 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,517.95 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,722.00 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10,103.67 | ↑ +34% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,714.40 | ↑ +55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13,764.42 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $14,643.00 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14,950.00 | ↑ +98% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Special pump services at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,151.51 | $709.83 – $2,050.62 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $918.49 | $1,073.00 – $2,103.08 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $876.91 | $603.99 – $2,192.26 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $11,092.16 | $8,072.46 – $23,918.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $10,972.57 | $8,072.46 – $24,217.38 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $12,401.81 | $8,858.43 – $34,590.06 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $1,409.40 | $2,035.80 – $2,756.16 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $979.29 | $877.50 – $4,018.00 |