Creatine - sendout at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$15.24
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.
$52.91
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.
$1.60 with Western Health Advantage vs $13.72 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 | $1.60 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $1.70 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.88 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $2.15 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2.24 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $3.25 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $3.34 | ↓ -78% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.43 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $3.43 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3.62 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $3.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3.71 | ↓ -76% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3.80 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.89 | ↓ -74% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.12 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -72% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.57 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $4.71 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $10.29 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.72 | ↓ -10% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Creatine - sendout at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $11.54 | $1.60 – $10.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $6.26 | $0.93 – $9.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $21.40 | $4.55 – $37.48 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $22.75 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $35.24 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $20.84 | $4.64 – $51.86 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $21.40 | $4.64 – $47.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $21.40 | $4.64 – $53.71 |