Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$209.67
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.
$728.00
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.
$38.17 with Hill Physicians vs $6,019.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $38.17 | ↓ -82% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $44.57 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $57.17 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $57.17 | ↓ -73% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $69.50 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $93.66 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $94.66 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $145.31 | ↓ -31% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $145.31 | ↓ -31% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $179.20 | ↓ -15% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $209.92 | ↑ +0% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $214.23 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $261.09 | ↑ +25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $271.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $276.87 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $282.41 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $285.18 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $337.92 | ↑ +61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $343.04 | ↑ +64% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $384.00 | ↑ +83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $389.12 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $396.47 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $396.47 | ↑ +89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $396.47 | ↑ +89% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $404.48 | ↑ +93% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $409.60 | ↑ +95% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $414.72 | ↑ +98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $424.96 | ↑ +103% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $435.20 | ↑ +108% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $450.56 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $460.80 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $460.80 | ↑ +120% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $465.92 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $696.00 | ↑ +232% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $700.92 | ↑ +234% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $708.00 | ↑ +238% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $708.00 | ↑ +238% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $2,970.00 | ↑ +1317% |
| Health Net | Commercial|EPPO | $3,135.00 | ↑ +1395% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,712.00 | ↑ +1670% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,937.00 | ↑ +2255% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $6,019.00 | ↑ +2771% |
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Injection therapeutic/prophylactic/diagnostic IV push single/initial substance/drug at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $158.71 | $38.17 – $409.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $420.48 | $68.09 – $1,951.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $298.17 | $42.14 – $449.11 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $442.68 | $286.64 – $292.49 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $493.92 | $57.17 – $995.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $339.00 | $32.86 – $124.46 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $452.37 | $57.17 – $807.80 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $243.38 | $57.17 – $437.06 |