Manual diff wbc count b-coat at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$18.15
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.
$63.00
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.
$4.05 with Partnership Health Plan vs $63.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.05 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.78 | ↓ -74% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $5.22 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.08 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.08 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.08 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.08 | ↓ -67% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.61 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.57 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $11.24 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.36 | ↓ -26% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.36 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.99 | ↓ -17% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $22.05 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $23.31 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $25.65 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.65 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.65 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.83 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $29.61 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $30.87 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $44.73 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $45.99 | ↑ +153% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $47.25 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $47.25 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $49.77 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $50.40 | ↑ +178% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $50.40 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $51.03 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $52.29 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.55 | ↑ +195% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $63.00 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +247% |
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Manual diff wbc count b-coat at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $13.74 | $4.05 – $50.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $65.30 | $5.07 – $136.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $64.60 | $5.07 – $135.09 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $101.07 | $5.07 – $141.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $52.63 | $4.31 – $146.78 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $98.37 | $5.07 – $179.54 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $199.84 | $5.07 – $108.24 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $17.27 | $4.05 – $52.29 |