Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$31.68
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.
$110.00
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.
$15.92 with Western Health Advantage vs $120.57 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 | $15.92 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.64 | ↓ -41% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.82 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $34.10 | ↑ +8% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $34.10 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $35.92 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $36.37 | ↑ +15% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.37 | ↑ +15% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $36.83 | ↑ +16% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.04 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.04 | ↑ +17% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $37.74 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $40.61 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $40.61 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $40.61 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.61 | ↑ +28% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $40.74 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $42.87 | ↑ +35% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $45.46 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $46.37 | ↑ +46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $46.83 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $51.58 | ↑ +63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $90.42 | ↑ +185% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $120.57 | ↑ +281% |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $23.98 | $15.92 – $90.42 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.46 | $40.61 – $120.12 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $20.50 | $7.85 – $42.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $206.04 | $50.33 – $66.86 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $19.38 | $22.63 – $105.20 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $37.21 | $11.39 – $43.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $17.75 | $12.23 – $123.68 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $43.78 | $32.50 – $117.33 |