Mayo cyanide at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$18.53
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.
$85.00
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.
$17.24 with Partnership Health Plan vs $85.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $17.24 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $18.29 | ↓ -1% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $19.40 | ↑ +5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $19.98 | ↑ +8% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $21.34 | ↑ +15% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.28 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.28 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.28 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.73 | ↑ +33% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.73 | ↑ +33% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.20 | ↑ +47% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $29.75 | ↑ +61% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $32.41 | ↑ +75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $34.85 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $39.95 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $42.50 | ↑ +129% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $42.96 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $49.74 | ↑ +168% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $57.29 | ↑ +209% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $57.37 | ↑ +210% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $57.37 | ↑ +210% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $57.80 | ↑ +212% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $61.20 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $62.05 | ↑ +235% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.05 | ↑ +235% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $63.75 | ↑ +244% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $67.15 | ↑ +262% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $68.00 | ↑ +267% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $68.00 | ↑ +267% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $68.00 | ↑ +267% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $70.88 | ↑ +283% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $70.88 | ↑ +283% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $70.88 | ↑ +283% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $85.00 | ↑ +359% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $85.00 | ↑ +359% |
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Mayo cyanide at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $24.48 | $17.24 – $70.55 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $37.23 | $19.40 – $66.30 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.53 | $3.88 – $28.45 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $36.38 | $19.40 – $83.30 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $56.61 | $19.40 – $83.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $33.32 | $19.40 – $83.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $31.54 | $19.40 – $68.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $31.20 | $19.40 – $67.15 |