C-reactive protein at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$2.31
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.
$8.00
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.
$2.80 with Western Health Advantage vs $15.31 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 | $2.80 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $2.96 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.28 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $3.76 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3.92 | ↑ +70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.60 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.88 | ↑ +111% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.18 | ↑ +124% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $5.34 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $5.68 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $5.84 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $6.00 | ↑ +160% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.00 | ↑ +160% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.22 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.22 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.22 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.22 | ↑ +169% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6.32 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $6.40 | ↑ +177% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.40 | ↑ +177% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6.48 | ↑ +181% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.60 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.60 | ↑ +186% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.64 | ↑ +187% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.80 | ↑ +194% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.26 | ↑ +214% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.00 | ↑ +246% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $11.48 | ↑ +397% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.31 | ↑ +563% |
Visitor-reported prices
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C-reactive protein at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $76.22 | $2.16 – $13.76 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.19 | $1.04 – $9.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $104.55 | $5.08 – $42.21 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $185.33 | $4.00 – $13.36 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $84.59 | $5.18 – $124.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $169.74 | $2.16 – $15.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $64.19 | $4.00 – $14.90 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $63.50 | $4.00 – $14.90 |