Streptomycin injection at Mercy Medical Center Merced
333 Mercy Ave., Merced, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518018191
$45.32
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.
$88.00
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.
$8.22 with BCBS - Anthem vs $41.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $8.22 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.25 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.25 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.82 | ↓ -76% |
| Central California Alliance for Health | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.30 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $17.08 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $24.60 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.65 | ↓ -41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $26.65 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $28.29 | ↓ -38% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $32.80 | ↓ -28% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $38.54 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $41.00 | ↓ -10% |
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Streptomycin injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $96.30 | $12.68 – $104.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $88.20 | $46.63 – $220.50 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $33.39 | $16.80 – $42.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $81.00 | $10.52 – $82.48 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $24.28 | $8.00 – $40.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $43.06 | $12.91 – $65.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $272.51 | $19.95 – $79.69 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $160.69 | $20.00 – $79.69 |