Urine Culture Test at Methodist Hospital of Sacramento
7500 Hospital Dr., Sacramento, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467560599
$58.18
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.
$202.00
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.
$5.65 with Partnership Health Plan vs $202.00 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 | $5.65 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7.61 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Hill Physicians | Commercial|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $8.07 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.10 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.10 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Imperial | $8.31 | ↓ -86% |
| Hill Physicians | Medicaid|All Plans | $8.91 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9.68 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $10.62 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.44 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|LocalPlus | $17.89 | ↓ -69% |
| California Health & Wellness | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.63 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.85 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $55.74 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $55.74 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.74 | ↓ -4% |
| Western Health Advantage | Commercial|All Plans | $70.70 | ↑ +22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $74.74 | ↑ +28% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|All Plans | $82.82 | ↑ +42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio CalPers | $94.94 | ↑ +63% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $98.98 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|HMO | $143.42 | ↑ +147% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|CalPers | $147.46 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Connection EPO | $150.82 | ↑ +159% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|BRMS | $151.50 | ↑ +160% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $151.50 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $159.58 | ↑ +174% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $161.60 | ↑ +178% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $163.62 | ↑ +181% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $167.66 | ↑ +188% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $171.70 | ↑ +195% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $188.53 | ↑ +224% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $202.00 | ↑ +247% |
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Urine Culture Test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| South Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $44.04 | $5.65 – $161.60 |
| Fresno Medical Center | FRESNO | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $190.53 | $8.07 – $25.18 |
| Antioch Medical Center | ANTIOCH | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $157.92 | $8.00 – $8.00 |