Blood Count (CBC) Test (without differential) at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$48.62
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.
$223.00
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.
$5.71 with Partnership Health Plan vs $178.40 with Sutter Health — 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 | $5.71 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.10 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $6.47 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $6.66 | ↓ -86% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $7.12 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7.76 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.19 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.19 | ↓ -83% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.01 | ↓ -81% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.71 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.73 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $14.34 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.69 | ↓ -68% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.00 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.13 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $23.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23.65 | ↓ -51% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $78.05 | ↑ +61% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $91.43 | ↑ +88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $91.68 | ↑ +89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $104.81 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $111.50 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $114.55 | ↑ +136% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $151.64 | ↑ +212% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $160.56 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $162.79 | ↑ +235% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $162.79 | ↑ +235% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $166.06 | ↑ +242% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $167.25 | ↑ +244% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $176.17 | ↑ +262% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $178.40 | ↑ +267% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $178.40 | ↑ +267% |
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Blood Count (CBC) Test (without differential) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $64.23 | $5.71 – $185.09 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $80.16 | $6.47 – $20.19 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $11.92 | $1.29 – $19.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $128.01 | $6.34 – $52.81 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $94.59 | $6.47 – $17.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $73.26 | $6.47 – $15.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $86.64 | $4.86 – $19.62 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $158.79 | $6.47 – $40.00 |