Breath tst attain/anal c-14 at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$1,022.48
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.
$2,756.00
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.
$11.06 with Humana vs $2,204.80 with MultiPlan — 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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| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $11.06 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $24.77 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.89 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24.89 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $24.89 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $24.89 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $46.56 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $48.88 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $52.12 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $52.12 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $87.50 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $119.92 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $161.87 | ↓ -84% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,378.00 | ↑ +35% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,791.40 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,929.20 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,094.56 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,204.80 | ↑ +116% |
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Breath tst attain/anal c-14 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,011.46 | $11.06 – $2,177.24 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $282.39 | $11.06 – $415.52 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $115.55 | $9.40 – $169.74 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,023.85 | $11.06 – $1,289.68 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $270.20 | $11.06 – $46.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $271.20 | $9.40 – $20.46 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $22.31 | $11.06 – $43.12 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $18.11 | $11.06 – $30.38 |