Blood Culture Test at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$83.72
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.
$384.00
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.
$8.98 with Partnership Health Plan vs $307.20 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 | $8.98 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.73 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $10.32 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $10.63 | ↓ -87% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $11.35 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.38 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.38 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.38 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.88 | ↓ -85% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.17 | ↓ -83% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.48 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.88 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $22.86 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.92 | ↓ -69% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.88 | ↓ -64% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.48 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $37.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $37.72 | ↓ -55% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $134.40 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $146.25 | ↑ +75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $157.44 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $180.48 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $182.73 | ↑ +118% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $192.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $261.12 | ↑ +212% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $264.90 | ↑ +216% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $276.48 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $280.32 | ↑ +235% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $280.32 | ↑ +235% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $288.00 | ↑ +244% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $303.36 | ↑ +262% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $307.20 | ↑ +267% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $307.20 | ↑ +267% |
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Blood Culture Test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $110.60 | $8.98 – $318.72 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $257.11 | $10.32 – $32.20 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.30 | $2.06 – $30.07 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $417.18 | $10.11 – $84.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $285.05 | $10.32 – $36.26 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $273.73 | $10.32 – $196.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $261.08 | $10.32 – $39.20 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $221.86 | $10.32 – $156.80 |