Boot j walker l at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$417.38
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.
$1,125.00
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.
$25.00 with Kern Health System vs $99.66 with Care 1st — 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $31.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $31.00 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $39.00 | ↓ -91% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $44.00 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.00 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $48.00 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $49.00 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $50.00 | ↓ -88% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $51.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $53.00 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $69.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $69.00 | ↓ -83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $70.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $74.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $74.00 | ↓ -82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $76.00 | ↓ -82% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $80.00 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $88.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $90.00 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $95.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $95.00 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $95.00 | ↓ -77% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $99.66 | ↓ -76% |
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Boot j walker l at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $412.88 | $25.00 – $99.66 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $442.38 | $143.04 – $464.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $108.38 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $196.46 | $79.00 – $154.84 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $179.93 | $30.02 – $154.84 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $108.38 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $92.12 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $69.36 | not published |