Warde vitamin c (ascorbic acid) at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$3.93
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.
$18.00
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.
$6.30 with Western Health Advantage vs $29.21 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 | $6.30 | ↑ +60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.38 | ↑ +88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $8.46 | ↑ +115% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.79 | ↑ +124% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $9.00 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.33 | ↑ +137% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $10.19 | ↑ +159% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $10.88 | ↑ +177% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.87 | ↑ +202% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.87 | ↑ +202% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.87 | ↑ +202% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $12.24 | ↑ +211% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.61 | ↑ +221% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.61 | ↑ +221% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.96 | ↑ +230% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $13.14 | ↑ +234% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.14 | ↑ +234% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.50 | ↑ +244% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.87 | ↑ +253% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $14.22 | ↑ +262% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14.40 | ↑ +266% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.40 | ↑ +266% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $14.40 | ↑ +266% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.84 | ↑ +278% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.53 | ↑ +321% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.00 | ↑ +358% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $21.91 | ↑ +458% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.21 | ↑ +643% |
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Warde vitamin c (ascorbic acid) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $5.19 | $6.30 – $21.91 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $5.63 | $1.98 – $14.50 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $33.74 | $9.69 – $80.62 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $7.71 | $9.00 – $25.49 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $11.99 | $9.75 – $17.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $7.06 | $4.86 – $29.96 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $6.68 | $9.00 – $28.43 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $6.61 | $9.00 – $28.43 |