Incision of windpipe at Mercy Medical Center Redding
2175 Roseline Ave, Redding, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477671535
$8,561.71
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.
$16,887.00
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.
$748.91 with BCBS - Anthem vs $17,538.00 with Aetna — 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 | $748.91 | ↓ -91% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,229.56 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,025.36 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,516.44 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $7,674.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,359.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,509.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $13,509.60 | ↑ +58% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $15,198.30 | ↑ +78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $16,380.39 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16,549.26 | ↑ +93% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16,549.26 | ↑ +93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16,887.00 | ↑ +97% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $16,887.00 | ↑ +97% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $17,538.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $17,538.00 | ↑ +105% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17,538.00 | ↑ +105% |
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Incision of windpipe at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $13,138.09 | $640.57 – $16,549.26 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $9,151.20 | $376.81 – $25,438.42 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $10,529.40 | $376.81 – $18,933.60 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $5,293.68 | $376.81 – $15,272.00 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $4,211.76 | $376.81 – $14,720.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $7,515.48 | $376.81 – $15,088.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $5,293.68 | $376.81 – $18,400.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $5,564.16 | $376.81 – $15,272.00 |