Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$77.54
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.
$209.00
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.
$57.60 with CHN Sun View vs $144.00 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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| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $57.60 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $59.04 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $59.04 | ↓ -24% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $72.00 | ↓ -7% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $73.44 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $97.92 | ↑ +26% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $100.00 | ↑ +29% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $100.80 | ↑ +30% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $109.44 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $112.32 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $112.32 | ↑ +45% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $113.76 | ↑ +47% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $115.20 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $133.92 | ↑ +73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $135.36 | ↑ +75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $144.00 | ↑ +86% |
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Amiodarone 150 mg/100 ml (1.5 mg/ml) in dextrose, iso-osmotic IV at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $76.71 | $36.00 – $142.56 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $68.33 | $35.37 – $102.18 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $150.35 | $5.09 – $5.57 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $222.56 | $176.85 – $385.14 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $203.84 | $106.11 – $385.14 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $150.35 | $5.19 – $5.57 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $150.35 | $5.22 – $6.57 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $150.35 | $3.92 – $12.98 |