Hcg qualitative at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$56.68
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.
$260.00
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.
$6.46 with Partnership Health Plan vs $208.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.46 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.09 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $7.52 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $7.75 | ↓ -86% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $8.27 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.02 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.02 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.02 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.27 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.27 | ↓ -84% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.20 | ↓ -82% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.28 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.14 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $16.66 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.78 | ↓ -69% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $21.51 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.22 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $27.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $27.43 | ↓ -52% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $91.00 | ↑ +61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $106.47 | ↑ +88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $106.60 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $122.20 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $130.00 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $133.03 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $176.80 | ↑ +212% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $187.20 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $189.80 | ↑ +235% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $189.80 | ↑ +235% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $192.84 | ↑ +240% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $195.00 | ↑ +244% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $205.40 | ↑ +262% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $208.00 | ↑ +267% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $208.00 | ↑ +267% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hcg qualitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $74.88 | $6.46 – $215.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $168.20 | $7.52 – $23.47 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $14.40 | $1.50 – $22.31 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $306.00 | $7.37 – $61.33 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $29.54 | $7.52 – $28.42 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $187.15 | $7.52 – $275.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $27.05 | $7.52 – $28.42 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $129.85 | $7.52 – $22.40 |