Artery x-rays chest at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$3,022.54
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.
$8,147.00
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.
$208.55 with BCBS - Anthem vs $15,009.21 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 |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $208.55 | ↓ -93% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $293.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $293.01 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $502.61 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $679.87 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $738.95 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $775.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,010.10 | ↑ +33% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,073.50 | ↑ +35% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $4,399.13 | ↑ +46% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $5,295.55 | ↑ +75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,495.92 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,702.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,191.72 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,438.74 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,517.60 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,418.42 | ↑ +145% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8,958.23 | ↑ +196% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15,009.21 | ↑ +397% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,009.21 | ↑ +397% |
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Artery x-rays chest at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,989.95 | $208.55 – $15,009.21 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,695.50 | $315.52 – $13,858.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,143.71 | $208.55 – $13,457.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,711.06 | $208.55 – $15,820.61 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,881.02 | $208.55 – $6,337.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,535.68 | $1,016.79 – $7,512.94 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,057.17 | $208.55 – $7,405.32 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,260.53 | $208.55 – $9,522.92 |