Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use 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

$49.54

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.

$172.00

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.

$2.00 with Partnership Health Plan vs $146.20 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.

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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 $2.00 ↓ -96%
United Medicaid|> 21 $2.87 ↓ -94%
United Medicaid|< 21 $2.87 ↓ -94%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Other Plans $3.09 ↓ -94%
Hill Physicians Medicaid|All Plans $3.16 ↓ -94%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Connected Care Commercial|Intel $3.28 ↓ -93%
Hill Physicians Commercial|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
United Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
Hill Physicians Medicare|All Plans $3.28 ↓ -93%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Imperial $3.38 ↓ -93%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $3.76 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $3.94 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|HMO $3.94 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|Options PPO $3.94 ↓ -92%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $3.94 ↓ -92%
Health Net Medicaid|All Plans $6.60 ↓ -87%
California Health & Wellness Medicaid|All Plans $6.60 ↓ -87%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $7.11 ↓ -86%
Cigna Commercial|LocalPlus $7.26 ↓ -85%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $9.68 ↓ -80%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $16.14 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $16.14 ↓ -67%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $16.14 ↓ -67%
Western Health Advantage Commercial|All Plans $60.20 ↑ +22%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $63.64 ↑ +28%
Kaiser Medicaid|All Plans $70.52 ↑ +42%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers $80.84 ↑ +63%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $84.28 ↑ +70%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|HMO $122.12 ↑ +147%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|CalPers $125.56 ↑ +153%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $129.00 ↑ +160%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|BRMS $129.00 ↑ +160%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $135.88 ↑ +174%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $137.60 ↑ +178%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $139.32 ↑ +181%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $142.76 ↑ +188%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $146.20 ↑ +195%

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Glucose blood by monitoring device cleared by fda for home use at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Mercy General Hospital Sacramento $37.50 $2.00 – $137.60
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $31.54 $3.28 – $56.16
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $169.32 $3.21 – $6.56
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $51.36 $2.25 – $10.78
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $104.57 $2.87 – $68.60
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $47.04 $2.25 – $10.78
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $30.43 $2.81 – $40.00
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $30.10 $2.81 – $39.50

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