Salivary gland function exam at Mercy Medical Center Redding
2175 Roseline Ave, Redding, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1477671535
$646.94
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.
$1,276.00
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.
$197.32 with BCBS - Anthem vs $1,250.48 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $197.32 | ↓ -69% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $256.89 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $454.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $454.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $454.59 | ↓ -30% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -21% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $533.65 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|Options | $848.52 | ↑ +31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $969.76 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,020.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,020.80 | ↑ +58% |
| Coventry | Commercial|All Plans | $1,148.40 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,173.92 | ↑ +81% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Plans | $1,237.72 | ↑ +91% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,250.48 | ↑ +93% |
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Salivary gland function exam at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $911.04 | $187.75 – $1,824.90 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,399.27 | $124.10 – $970.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $364.70 | $124.10 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $360.77 | $124.10 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $280.77 | $111.51 – $531.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $573.20 | $124.10 – $511.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $425.83 | $111.69 – $1,364.43 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $518.39 – $825.67 |