Warde zinc at Mercy General Hospital
4001 J St., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1487694857
$15.70
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.
$72.00
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.
$3.58 with Western Health Advantage vs $33.62 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 | $3.58 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.19 | ↓ -73% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $4.80 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5.11 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $6.95 | ↓ -56% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $7.36 | ↓ -53% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.46 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $7.46 | ↓ -52% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.66 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -49% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $8.17 | ↓ -48% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -39% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.12 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|HMO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|PPO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $10.21 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $10.52 | ↓ -33% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $11.24 | ↓ -28% |
| Prison Healthcare | Medicaid|All Plans | $15.32 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $25.21 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.62 | ↑ +114% |
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Warde zinc at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $20.74 | $3.58 – $25.21 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.52 | $3.12 – $30.21 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.51 | $2.28 – $16.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $34.15 | $11.16 – $92.99 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $19.69 | $2.50 – $29.33 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $30.64 | $2.71 – $5.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.04 | $1.35 – $34.48 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4.46 | $2.50 – $32.72 |