Mucin synovial fluid at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$23.62
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.
$82.00
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.
$5.21 with Partnership Health Plan vs $82.00 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 |
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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.21 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.53 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.86 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $6.04 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.03 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.03 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.03 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7.03 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.47 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.47 | ↓ -68% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.22 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.79 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.11 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $12.98 | ↓ -45% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.18 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.18 | ↓ -27% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.31 | ↓ -27% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $28.70 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $30.34 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $33.62 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $38.54 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $40.18 | ↑ +70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $40.49 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.49 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $40.49 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $58.22 | ↑ +146% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $59.86 | ↑ +153% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $61.50 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $61.50 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $64.78 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $65.60 | ↑ +178% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $65.60 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $66.42 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $68.06 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $69.70 | ↑ +195% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $82.00 | ↑ +247% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $82.00 | ↑ +247% |
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Mucin synovial fluid at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $17.88 | $5.21 – $65.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $86.29 | $5.86 – $153.66 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $176.04 | $5.86 – $316.54 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $6.65 | $5.86 – $15.64 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $22.47 | $5.21 – $68.06 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $31.90 | $5.21 – $67.24 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $22.47 | $5.21 – $82.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $5.74 – $47.87 |