Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$5.77
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.
$20.03
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.
$4.49 with Western Health Advantage vs $65.96 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 | $4.49 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $4.75 | ↓ -18% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.26 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $6.03 | ↑ +5% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.29 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $9.11 | ↑ +58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $9.36 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $9.62 | ↑ +67% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.62 | ↑ +67% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $10.13 | ↑ +76% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $10.26 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $10.26 | ↑ +78% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $10.39 | ↑ +80% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10.65 | ↑ +85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.90 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $12.09 | ↑ +110% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.82 | ↑ +122% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $13.21 | ↑ +129% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $49.47 | ↑ +757% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65.96 | ↑ +1043% |
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Immunofixation electrophoresis serum at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $15.29 | $4.47 – $32.77 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $79.05 | $21.89 – $182.35 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $94.16 | $4.17 – $57.56 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $53.85 | $2.16 – $8.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $86.24 | $2.26 – $67.66 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $17.87 | $4.25 – $64.19 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $17.68 | $4.25 – $64.19 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $79.05 | $22.34 – $230.44 |