Creatine kinase mb at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento

7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$161.86

Cash price

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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.

$562.00

Gross charge

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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.

$10.13 with Partnership Health Plan vs $477.70 with Blue Shield CA — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|All Plans $10.13 ↓ -94%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Other Plans $10.89 ↓ -93%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Hill Physicians Commercial|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Hill Physicians Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
Connected Care Commercial|Intel $11.55 ↓ -93%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
United Medicare|All Plans $11.55 ↓ -93%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Imperial $11.90 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $13.86 ↓ -91%
United Commercial|HMO $13.86 ↓ -91%
United Commercial|Options PPO $13.86 ↓ -91%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $13.86 ↓ -91%
United Medicaid|< 21 $14.53 ↓ -91%
United Medicaid|> 21 $14.53 ↓ -91%
Hill Physicians Medicaid|All Plans $15.98 ↓ -90%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $19.04 ↓ -88%
Cigna Commercial|LocalPlus $25.59 ↓ -84%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $29.11 ↓ -82%
California Health & Wellness Medicaid|All Plans $33.42 ↓ -79%
Health Net Medicaid|All Plans $33.42 ↓ -79%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $34.12 ↓ -79%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $79.74 ↓ -51%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $79.74 ↓ -51%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $79.74 ↓ -51%
Western Health Advantage Commercial|All Plans $196.70 ↑ +22%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $207.94 ↑ +28%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Connection EPO $218.83 ↑ +35%
Kaiser Medicaid|All Plans $230.42 ↑ +42%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers $264.14 ↑ +63%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $273.54 ↑ +69%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $275.38 ↑ +70%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $363.75 ↑ +125%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|HMO $399.02 ↑ +147%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|CalPers $410.26 ↑ +153%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|BRMS $421.50 ↑ +160%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $421.50 ↑ +160%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $443.98 ↑ +174%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $449.60 ↑ +178%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $455.22 ↑ +181%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $466.46 ↑ +188%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $477.70 ↑ +195%

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Creatine kinase mb at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Mercy General Hospital Sacramento $122.52 $10.13 – $449.60
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $201.92 $11.55 – $36.04
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $21.91 $2.31 – $33.95
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $287.64 $11.32 – $94.25
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $217.86 $5.35 – $29.77
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $183.15 $11.55 – $28.31
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $199.53 $2.89 – $35.00
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $112.79 $6.91 – $33.20

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