Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$60.48
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.
$210.00
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.
$36.25 with Western Health Advantage vs $145.00 with United — 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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| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $36.25 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $59.45 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $100.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $100.00 | ↑ +65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $108.75 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $108.75 | ↑ +80% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $114.55 | ↑ +89% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $116.00 | ↑ +92% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $117.45 | ↑ +94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $120.35 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $136.30 | ↑ +125% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $143.55 | ↑ +137% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $145.00 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $145.00 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $145.00 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $145.00 | ↑ +140% |
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Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $45.78 | $36.25 – $145.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $68.33 | $35.37 – $102.18 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $150.35 | $5.09 – $5.57 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $222.56 | $176.85 – $385.14 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $203.84 | $106.11 – $385.14 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $77.54 | $57.60 – $115.20 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $76.71 | $36.00 – $142.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $150.35 | $5.19 – $5.57 |