Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$13.74
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.
$63.00
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.
$20.66 with Partnership Health Plan vs $146.15 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.66 | ↑ +50% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $22.05 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.83 | ↑ +88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.60 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $29.63 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $29.63 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $30.35 | ↑ +121% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $32.18 | ↑ +134% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.59 | ↑ +137% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $33.15 | ↑ +141% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $35.40 | ↑ +158% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.84 | ↑ +183% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $45.36 | ↑ +230% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $47.25 | ↑ +244% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $48.27 | ↑ +251% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $49.77 | ↑ +262% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↑ +267% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↑ +267% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $50.40 | ↑ +267% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $56.30 | ↑ +310% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +359% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $109.60 | ↑ +698% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $146.15 | ↑ +964% |
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Cytopath smear oth prep screen & interp at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $18.15 | $20.66 – $109.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $51.00 | $38.98 – $45.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $41.69 | $11.65 – $44.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $36.73 | $24.00 – $142.22 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $36.34 | $24.00 – $142.22 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $105.06 | $41.07 – $53.48 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $185.13 | $37.20 – $60.64 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $45.92 | $8.05 – $64.34 |