Gi wireless capsule measure at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$605.96
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.
$2,104.00
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.
$736.40 with Western Health Advantage vs $9,228.00 with Health Net — 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 | $736.40 | ↑ +22% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $862.64 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,081.07 | ↑ +78% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,081.07 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,161.82 | ↑ +92% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,189.18 | ↑ +96% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.05 | ↑ +103% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,256.70 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $1,269.01 | ↑ +109% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,578.00 | ↑ +160% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $1,592.16 | ↑ +163% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,662.16 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $1,683.20 | ↑ +178% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,683.20 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,704.24 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,746.32 | ↑ +188% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $1,848.41 | ↑ +205% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,032.41 | ↑ +235% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,054.03 | ↑ +239% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,082.96 | ↑ +244% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,104.00 | ↑ +247% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $4,808.00 | ↑ +693% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $9,228.00 | ↑ +1423% |
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Gi wireless capsule measure at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $458.68 | $736.40 – $2,104.00 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $576.50 | $231.44 – $2,104.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $818.46 | $231.44 – $2,104.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $576.50 | $231.44 – $2,104.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $1,222.26 – $7,140.40 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $1,287.79 – $9,023.69 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $1,166.53 – $10,232.92 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $1,222.02 – $4,082.05 |