Caspofungin acetate at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$621.80
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.
$1,676.00
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.
$6.23 with Health Net vs $280.99 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 | $6.23 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7.29 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.35 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.35 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.35 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8.70 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10.84 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.75 | ↓ -98% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $132.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $135.30 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $135.30 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $152.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $165.00 | ↓ -73% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $168.30 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $208.23 | ↓ -67% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $231.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $250.80 | ↓ -60% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $264.00 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $280.99 | ↓ -55% |
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Caspofungin acetate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $591.98 | $5.51 – $260.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,650.72 | $8.35 – $3,971.94 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $402.49 | $8.35 – $221.40 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $814.22 | $8.35 – $303.62 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $1,515.82 | $8.35 – $2,863.21 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $453.66 | $6.85 – $1,565.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $1,453.74 | $7.24 – $3,579.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $1,419.41 | $7.31 – $3,352.80 |