Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$16.57
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.
$76.00
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.
$0.50 with Health Net vs $40.00 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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| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $0.50 | ↓ -97% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $0.66 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $0.70 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $0.71 | ↓ -96% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $0.75 | ↓ -95% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $0.78 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $0.94 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $0.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $1.00 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.06 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.23 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.27 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.27 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.33 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1.46 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1.46 | ↓ -91% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.65 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.65 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $1.65 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1.78 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.20 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.67 | ↓ -42% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.50 | ↑ +24% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $36.00 | ↑ +117% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.50 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $39.50 | ↑ +138% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↑ +141% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↑ +141% |
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Dopamine 40 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $21.89 | $0.66 – $41.50 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $0.46 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $145.35 | $0.43 – $1.53 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $79.61 | $0.76 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $72.92 | $0.70 – $52.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $27.83 | $0.37 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $38.17 | $0.69 – $20.54 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $145.35 | $0.47 – $1.53 |