Ecg external > 48 hours up to 7 days recording at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$121.87
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.
$559.00
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.
$12.89 with Hill Physicians vs $22,221.00 with United — 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 | Commercial|All Plans | $12.89 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.03 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $16.40 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.38 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $26.66 | ↓ -78% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.55 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.55 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $48.64 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $51.58 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $53.13 | ↓ -56% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $56.74 | ↓ -53% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $60.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $77.37 | ↓ -37% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $195.65 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $205.68 | ↑ +69% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $229.19 | ↑ +88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $257.00 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $372.56 | ↑ +206% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $402.48 | ↑ +230% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $419.25 | ↑ +244% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $441.61 | ↑ +262% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $447.20 | ↑ +267% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $447.20 | ↑ +267% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $559.00 | ↑ +359% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10,710.00 | ↑ +8688% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22,221.00 | ↑ +18133% |
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Ecg external > 48 hours up to 7 days recording at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $161.00 | $12.89 – $463.97 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $188.19 | $53.03 – $149.74 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $192.78 | $48.04 – $169.80 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $33.15 | $36.90 – $67.74 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $132.60 | $170.20 – $170.20 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $140.82 | $19.08 – $177.38 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $81.21 | $14.03 – $146.02 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $153.17 | $12.89 – $463.97 |