Caffeine citrate 20 mg/ml inj for po at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$67.53
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.
$182.00
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.
$0.95 with Health Net vs $27.92 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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| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $0.95 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $1.06 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1.25 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.45 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.45 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3.32 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.32 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3.32 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3.73 | ↓ -94% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $12.80 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.12 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $13.12 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $15.10 | ↓ -78% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -76% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $16.32 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.69 | ↓ -69% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $22.40 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $24.32 | ↓ -64% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $25.60 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $27.92 | ↓ -59% |
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Caffeine citrate 20 mg/ml inj for po at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $66.80 | $1.85 – $25.28 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $1.45 – $52.26 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $73.19 | $2.17 – $84.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $47.04 | $1.70 – $84.28 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $4.29 – $4.36 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $4.36 – $5.12 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $84.15 | $5.14 – $5.14 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $43.81 | $1.62 – $53.30 |