Creatine - sendout at Mercy Medical Center Redding
2175 Roseline Ave, Redding, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477671535
$26.95
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.
$53.15
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.
$4.12 with Partnership Health Plan vs $41.37 with MultiPlan — 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 | $4.12 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.64 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.57 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.57 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $5.57 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.43 | ↓ -69% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.23 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $16.89 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.95 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $25.83 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.83 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.83 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $32.08 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.77 | ↑ +25% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $33.77 | ↑ +25% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $37.99 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.84 | ↑ +44% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $40.95 | ↑ +52% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.37 | ↑ +54% |
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Creatine - sendout at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $6.26 | $0.93 – $9.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $21.40 | $4.55 – $37.48 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $22.75 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $35.24 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $20.84 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $21.40 | $4.64 – $47.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $21.40 | $4.64 – $53.71 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $21.40 | $53.84 – $53.84 |