Blm gene at Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta
914 Pine St, Mt Shasta, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518085430
$31.60
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.
$40.61
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.
$21.12 with California Health & Wellness vs $39.80 with Coventry — 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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| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.12 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $27.62 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.31 | ↑ +5% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $33.31 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.12 | ↑ +8% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $34.93 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $35.34 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $35.34 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.34 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.74 | ↑ +13% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $37.77 | ↑ +20% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $39.31 | ↑ +24% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.80 | ↑ +26% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $39.80 | ↑ +26% |
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Blm gene at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $119.59 | $20.31 – $101.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $109.53 | $10.97 – $119.06 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $20.59 | $30.87 – $39.80 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $23.72 | $19.90 – $39.80 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $38.52 – $314.90 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $39.31 – $397.96 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $39.31 – $752.23 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $39.31 – $180.03 |