T4 (thyroxine) total at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$106.61
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.
$489.00
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.
$5.18 with Partnership Health Plan vs $171.00 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 | $5.18 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.48 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $6.87 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $7.08 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.43 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.43 | ↓ -93% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $7.56 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.24 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $8.24 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.24 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.30 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $15.23 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.85 | ↓ -84% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.24 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.24 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.31 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.12 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $25.12 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.12 | ↓ -76% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $59.85 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $70.11 | ↓ -34% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $80.37 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $85.50 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $97.40 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $116.28 | ↑ +9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $121.70 | ↑ +14% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $123.12 | ↑ +15% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $124.83 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $124.83 | ↑ +17% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $128.25 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $135.09 | ↑ +27% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $136.80 | ↑ +28% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $136.80 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $171.00 | ↑ +60% |
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T4 (thyroxine) total at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $140.84 | $5.18 – $141.93 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $58.70 | $1.77 – $18.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $216.24 | $6.73 – $56.11 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $154.51 | $3.27 – $17.72 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $11.45 | $3.54 – $6.53 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $141.52 | $1.77 – $20.83 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $161.39 | $3.00 – $19.76 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $159.65 | $3.00 – $19.76 |