Brace tlso flex cust at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$320.92
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.
$865.00
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.
$127.50 with Kern Health System vs $484.50 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 | $127.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $127.50 | ↓ -60% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $139.55 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $158.10 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $158.10 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $198.90 | ↓ -38% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $204.00 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $224.40 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $244.80 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $244.80 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $249.90 | ↓ -22% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $255.00 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $255.00 | ↓ -21% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $260.10 | ↓ -19% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $270.30 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $351.90 | ↑ +10% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $351.90 | ↑ +10% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $357.00 | ↑ +11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $377.40 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $377.40 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $387.60 | ↑ +21% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $408.00 | ↑ +27% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $448.80 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $459.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $484.50 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $484.50 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $484.50 | ↑ +51% |
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Brace tlso flex cust at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $317.46 | $127.50 – $494.70 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $339.89 | $186.24 – $605.28 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $203.45 | $119.34 – $459.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $571.83 | $176.40 – $720.30 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $178.19 | $53.82 – $224.64 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $228.60 | $139.55 – $508.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $419.25 | $125.60 – $975.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $381.23 | $139.55 – $975.00 |