Culture anaerobic additional method definitive id each at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$21.59
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.
$99.00
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.
$2.58 with Western Health Advantage vs $23.85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $2.58 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $3.47 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3.69 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $5.02 | ↓ -77% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $5.31 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.39 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $5.39 | ↓ -75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.53 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.83 | ↓ -73% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.90 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $5.90 | ↓ -73% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $5.90 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.95 | ↓ -68% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.18 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $7.60 | ↓ -65% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $8.11 | ↓ -62% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $17.89 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.85 | ↑ +10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture anaerobic additional method definitive id each at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $28.52 | $2.58 – $17.89 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $35.92 | $1.97 – $21.43 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $37.94 | $1.62 – $24.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $358.02 | $7.92 – $102.82 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.92 | $8.08 – $23.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $70.60 | $8.08 – $103.88 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.91 | $6.55 – $24.47 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $58.25 | $8.08 – $23.21 |