Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$43.78
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.
$118.00
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.
$4.00 with Western Growers vs $48.19 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 | $4.00 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $5.04 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $5.12 | ↓ -88% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $5.20 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5.60 | ↓ -87% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6.08 | ↓ -86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.40 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.88 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $8.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.92 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $48.19 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.19 | ↑ +10% |
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Alpha-fetoprotein tumor marker at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $43.31 | $4.00 – $48.19 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $21.90 | $2.16 – $44.49 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $6.89 | $3.28 – $140.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $148.92 | $16.43 – $136.95 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $295.04 | $4.34 – $8.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $167.79 | $16.77 – $173.07 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $85.68 | $16.77 – $196.27 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $60.53 | $0.80 – $6.40 |