Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at Mercy Medical Center Redding
2175 Roseline Ave, Redding, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477671535
$1,083.46
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.
$2,137.00
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.
$186.81 with BCBS - Anthem vs $5,310.00 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 | $186.81 | ↓ -83% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $306.69 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $505.21 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $879.92 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,549.60 | ↑ +43% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,549.60 | ↑ +43% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $1,743.30 | ↑ +61% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $1,878.89 | ↑ +73% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,898.26 | ↑ +75% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,898.26 | ↑ +75% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $1,937.00 | ↑ +79% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,937.00 | ↑ +79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,066.00 | ↑ +183% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,739.00 | ↑ +245% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,310.00 | ↑ +390% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,310.00 | ↑ +390% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,310.00 | ↑ +390% |
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Puncture spinal lumbar diagnostic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $743.29 | $115.61 – $1,617.30 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $393.59 | $116.85 – $276.45 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,530.51 | $951.25 – $2,695.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,010.08 | $93.99 – $1,803.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,845.49 | $56.92 – $215.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,296.74 | $93.99 – $1,803.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $782.44 | $93.99 – $1,687.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $774.01 | $93.99 – $1,666.11 |