Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$9.65
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.
$26.00
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.
$0.90 with Health Net vs $20.80 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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| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $0.90 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $1.02 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1.06 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.20 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.20 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.20 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.42 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.42 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.75 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.12 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $7.22 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.89 | ↑ +2% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.40 | ↑ +8% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↑ +10% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.66 | ↑ +10% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↑ +35% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $13.26 | ↑ +37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $13.35 | ↑ +38% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.20 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.76 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.80 | ↑ +116% |
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Diphenhydramine 50 mg/ml injection (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $9.55 | $1.09 – $20.54 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $1.20 – $20.10 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $84.15 | $1.32 – $1.90 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $1.20 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $1.20 – $52.92 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $1.32 – $2.05 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $1.42 – $2.45 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $37.12 | $6.50 – $52.00 |