Culture quantitative aerobic other source at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$153.22
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.
$532.00
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.
$5.22 with Partnership Health Plan vs $452.20 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.
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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.22 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.22 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.22 | ↓ -97% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.74 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.33 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.81 | ↓ -94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $9.89 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.92 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $10.19 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.87 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.87 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.87 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.87 | ↓ -92% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $21.91 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.21 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $65.14 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $65.14 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65.14 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $89.32 | ↓ -42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $111.65 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $148.47 | ↓ -3% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $186.20 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $196.84 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $218.12 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $250.04 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $260.68 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $377.72 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $388.36 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $399.00 | ↑ +160% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $399.00 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $420.28 | ↑ +174% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $425.60 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $430.92 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $441.56 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $452.20 | ↑ +195% |
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Culture quantitative aerobic other source at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $115.98 | $5.22 – $425.60 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $34.04 | $1.98 – $59.17 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $131.49 | $5.22 – $34.30 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $105.47 | $5.22 – $378.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $446.90 | $5.22 – $57.82 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $82.45 | $4.70 – $134.30 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $176.75 | $9.89 – $55.22 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $145.77 | $5.22 – $441.56 |