Uric acid blood at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$51.84
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.
$180.00
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.
$4.01 with Partnership Health Plan vs $153.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $4.01 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.26 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.52 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $4.66 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.42 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.42 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.42 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.75 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.32 | ↓ -88% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.54 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $10.02 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.11 | ↓ -80% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.22 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.36 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $31.21 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.21 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $31.21 | ↓ -40% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $63.00 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $66.60 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $73.80 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $84.60 | ↑ +63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $85.75 | ↑ +65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $88.20 | ↑ +70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $107.18 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $127.80 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $131.40 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $135.00 | ↑ +160% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.00 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $142.20 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $142.53 | ↑ +175% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $144.00 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $145.80 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $149.40 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $153.00 | ↑ +195% |
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Uric acid blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $39.24 | $4.01 – $144.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $120.89 | $4.52 – $14.11 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.76 | $0.90 – $13.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $166.26 | $4.43 – $36.93 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $182.76 | $4.52 – $12.74 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $67.94 | $4.52 – $83.30 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $167.39 | $3.51 – $13.70 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $140.98 | $4.52 – $60.80 |