C-reactive protein high sensitivity at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$65.84
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.
$302.00
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.
$9.17 with Western Health Advantage vs $38.25 with Cigna — 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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| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $9.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.75 | ↓ -84% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.06 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.06 | ↓ -83% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.17 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $12.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $12.32 | ↓ -81% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $12.95 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13.10 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $13.34 | ↓ -80% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $14.24 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.54 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15.54 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.54 | ↓ -76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $17.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $18.87 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $19.13 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.13 | ↓ -71% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $19.43 | ↓ -70% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $20.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.79 | ↓ -68% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.96 | ↓ -68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.96 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $20.96 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.26 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.66 | ↓ -61% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.20 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.20 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.20 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $28.69 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.25 | ↓ -42% |
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C-reactive protein high sensitivity at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $86.98 | $9.17 – $28.69 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $82.35 | $12.95 – $40.41 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $36.31 | $2.59 – $50.44 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $532.95 | $12.69 – $105.63 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $184.47 | $10.36 – $38.22 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $112.56 | $11.06 – $31.74 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $168.96 | $10.36 – $39.24 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $79.77 | $8.00 – $37.22 |