_afb org id by sequencing rflx ast-sendout at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$59.18
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.
$159.50
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.
$52.13 with Western Growers vs $331.49 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 Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $52.13 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $65.69 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $66.73 | ↑ +13% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $67.77 | ↑ +15% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $72.99 | ↑ +23% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $79.24 | ↑ +34% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $83.41 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $83.41 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.67 | ↑ +52% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $102.54 | ↑ +73% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $104.26 | ↑ +76% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $233.55 | ↑ +295% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $331.49 | ↑ +460% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $331.49 | ↑ +460% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $58.54 | $52.13 – $331.49 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $69.87 | $28.16 – $306.07 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $77.00 | $14.76 – $169.19 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $199.09 | $52.13 – $297.22 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $182.34 | $28.16 – $349.41 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $91.08 | $10.43 – $83.41 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $46.90 | $21.90 – $104.26 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $116.56 | $54.22 – $104.26 |