Bone biopsy open superficial at Mercy Medical Center Redding
2175 Roseline Ave, Redding, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477671535
$4,036.23
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.
$7,961.00
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.
$288.70 with BCBS - Anthem vs $9,359.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $288.70 | ↓ -93% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $473.97 | ↓ -88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $780.74 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,636.52 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,357.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,357.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,357.00 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,368.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,368.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $7,164.90 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $7,674.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $7,722.17 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,801.78 | ↑ +93% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,801.78 | ↑ +93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,961.00 | ↑ +97% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $7,961.00 | ↑ +97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,359.00 | ↑ +132% |
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Bone biopsy open superficial at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $4,420.17 | $178.66 – $8,520.80 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,230.05 | $2,570.00 – $6,619.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $5,815.02 | $4,124.29 – $16,652.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,849.19 | $3,735.95 – $16,652.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $3,327.24 | $3,125.00 – $5,198.77 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $3,455.25 | $8,005.00 – $25,998.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $5,595.21 | $2,995.00 – $6,732.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $4,987.68 | $3,175.56 – $6,920.00 |