Lactic acid at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$131.62
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.
$457.00
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.
$3.38 with Western Health Advantage vs $34.16 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 | $3.38 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $3.57 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.95 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $4.53 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4.72 | ↓ -96% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $6.84 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $7.03 | ↓ -95% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.23 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $7.23 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $7.61 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $7.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.71 | ↓ -94% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $7.81 | ↓ -94% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.19 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.09 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.41 | ↓ -93% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.63 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $9.92 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $25.62 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $34.16 | ↓ -74% |
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Lactic acid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $99.63 | $3.38 – $25.62 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $69.21 | $2.15 – $30.70 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $23.79 | $2.31 – $15.53 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $122.40 | $11.34 – $87.16 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $133.11 | $3.98 – $29.81 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $185.15 | $11.57 – $28.36 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $121.92 | $2.15 – $35.04 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $378.42 | $3.98 – $33.25 |