Catheterization collection of specimen single patient all places of service at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$176.55
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.
$613.00
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.
$3.60 with United vs $5,532.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3.60 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.60 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.60 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $6.64 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.57 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.86 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $9.36 | ↓ -95% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $137.90 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $145.78 | ↓ -17% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $161.54 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $185.18 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $193.06 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $279.74 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $287.62 | ↑ +63% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $295.50 | ↑ +67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $295.50 | ↑ +67% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $311.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $315.20 | ↑ +79% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $319.14 | ↑ +81% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $327.02 | ↑ +85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $334.90 | ↑ +90% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,532.00 | ↑ +3033% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,532.00 | ↑ +3033% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,532.00 | ↑ +3033% |
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Catheterization collection of specimen single patient all places of service at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $133.64 | $3.60 – $315.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $140.16 | $3.60 – $249.60 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $80.96 | $1.82 – $113.49 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $43.35 | $6.00 – $9.34 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $11.99 | $3.00 – $17.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $25.98 | $9.09 – $38.22 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $7.06 | $3.00 – $15.68 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $156.57 | $3.60 – $305.60 |