Cefotaxime sodium injection at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$1.97
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.
$9.00
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.
$2.33 with Hill Physicians vs $31.02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $2.33 | ↑ +18% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $3.68 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.69 | ↑ +87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $6.48 | ↑ +229% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6.48 | ↑ +229% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.75 | ↑ +243% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.11 | ↑ +261% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7.20 | ↑ +265% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.20 | ↑ +265% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.10 | ↑ +311% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $8.47 | ↑ +330% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $9.00 | ↑ +357% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.49 | ↑ +382% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.84 | ↑ +806% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $23.26 | ↑ +1081% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.02 | ↑ +1475% |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $9.97 – $52.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $41.56 | $7.24 – $91.14 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $12.56 | $2.33 – $43.56 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $33.78 | $10.00 – $39.43 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $33.49 | $2.34 – $26.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $30.56 | $7.17 – $47.45 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $33.04 | $10.00 – $39.51 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $38.32 | $5.46 – $47.45 |