Hemoglobin urine at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$4.41
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.
$15.31
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.
$3.51 with Partnership Health Plan vs $15.31 with Aetna — 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 | $3.51 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.72 | ↓ -16% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $4.07 | ↓ -8% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.74 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.74 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.74 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.74 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.03 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.03 | ↑ +14% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $5.36 | ↑ +22% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.53 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $5.67 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.28 | ↑ +42% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.60 | ↑ +50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $7.20 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $7.51 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $8.76 | ↑ +99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.36 | ↑ +135% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $10.88 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $11.18 | ↑ +154% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $11.49 | ↑ +161% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.49 | ↑ +161% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.57 | ↑ +162% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.57 | ↑ +162% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.68 | ↑ +165% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $12.10 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $12.25 | ↑ +178% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $12.25 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.41 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.71 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.02 | ↑ +195% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.31 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.31 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $15.31 | ↑ +247% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $15.31 | ↑ +247% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $15.31 | ↑ +247% |
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Hemoglobin urine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $3.34 | $3.51 – $12.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $6.56 | $3.95 – $15.01 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $10.20 | $3.95 – $15.01 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $6.01 | $3.95 – $15.01 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $5.69 | $3.95 – $12.25 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $5.62 | $3.95 – $12.10 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $8.75 | $1.54 – $12.25 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4.51 | $3.22 – $12.56 |