Brace back pinnacle tlso 464 at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$2,025.66
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.
$5,460.00
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.
$281.25 with Kern Health System vs $1,068.75 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $281.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $281.25 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $348.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $348.75 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $438.75 | ↓ -78% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $450.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $495.00 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $540.00 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $540.00 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $551.25 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $562.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $562.50 | ↓ -72% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $573.75 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $596.25 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $776.25 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $776.25 | ↓ -62% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $787.50 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $832.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $832.50 | ↓ -59% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $855.00 | ↓ -58% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $900.00 | ↓ -56% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $934.38 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $990.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,012.50 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,068.75 | ↓ -47% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,068.75 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,068.75 | ↓ -47% |
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Brace back pinnacle tlso 464 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,003.82 | $281.25 – $1,091.25 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,151.46 | $242.40 – $1,607.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4,464.56 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $2,103.20 | $934.38 – $4,815.72 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,926.29 | $933.66 – $4,815.72 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,464.56 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,195.08 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,710.11 | not published |