Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptococcus neoformans at Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta
914 Pine St, Mt Shasta, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1518085430
$17.12
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.
$22.00
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.
$10.10 with Partnership Health Plan vs $19.60 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.10 | ↓ -41% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.40 | ↓ -39% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $13.60 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.74 | ↓ -20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.40 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $16.40 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.80 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.20 | ↑ +0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $17.40 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $17.40 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.40 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.60 | ↑ +3% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $18.60 | ↑ +9% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $19.60 | ↑ +14% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $19.60 | ↑ +14% |
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Infectious agent antigen immunoassay ql/sq multi step cryptococcus neoformans at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $9.64 | $5.40 – $35.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $53.08 | $10.00 – $34.57 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $88.58 | $10.10 – $19.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $48.61 | $5.40 – $40.64 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $8.17 | $10.00 – $38.55 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $8.08 | $10.00 – $38.55 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $12.57 | $2.00 – $16.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $69.68 | $4.20 – $20.00 |