Mayo iodine at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$29.22
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.
$134.00
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.
$5.72 with Western Health Advantage vs $71.19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $5.72 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.70 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $7.68 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.17 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $11.12 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $11.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.93 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $11.93 | ↓ -59% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.26 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $12.91 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $13.08 | ↓ -55% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.08 | ↓ -55% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13.08 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $15.41 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $16.34 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $16.84 | ↓ -42% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $17.98 | ↓ -38% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.51 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $53.39 | ↑ +83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $71.19 | ↑ +144% |
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Mayo iodine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $38.60 | $5.72 – $53.39 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $26.28 | $4.22 – $63.96 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $12.52 | $4.82 – $26.96 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $64.20 | $15.00 – $62.12 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $39.96 | $8.45 – $15.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $58.80 | $8.10 – $73.02 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $64.09 | $7.80 – $69.28 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $63.40 | $7.80 – $69.28 |