Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe hsv-1 at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$17.71
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.
$61.46
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.
$17.50 with Western Health Advantage vs $103.63 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 | $17.50 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $18.50 | ↑ +4% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $20.50 | ↑ +16% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $23.50 | ↑ +33% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $24.50 | ↑ +38% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.56 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $33.09 | ↑ +87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↑ +98% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.23 | ↑ +99% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.23 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $35.50 | ↑ +100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $36.14 | ↑ +104% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $36.50 | ↑ +106% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.50 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $37.50 | ↑ +112% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.75 | ↑ +119% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $39.50 | ↑ +123% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $40.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↑ +126% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $40.50 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $41.50 | ↑ +134% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $42.11 | ↑ +138% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $42.11 | ↑ +138% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $42.11 | ↑ +138% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.11 | ↑ +138% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.50 | ↑ +140% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $46.17 | ↑ +161% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $50.00 | ↑ +182% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $77.71 | ↑ +339% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $103.63 | ↑ +485% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe hsv-1 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $13.40 | $17.50 – $77.71 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $21.90 | $13.50 – $93.11 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $20.09 | $7.02 – $40.52 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $72.68 | $34.39 – $277.20 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $27.40 | $25.00 – $90.42 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $58.43 | $27.07 – $49.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $25.09 | $13.50 – $106.29 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $32.28 | $25.00 – $100.84 |