Dx bronchoscope/brush 31623 at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$277.88
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.
$749.00
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.
$242.67 with BCBS - Anthem vs $8,247.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $242.67 | ↓ -13% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $374.50 | ↑ +35% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $486.85 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $524.30 | ↑ +89% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $537.45 | ↑ +93% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $537.45 | ↑ +93% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $569.24 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $584.22 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $584.22 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $591.71 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $599.20 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $704.06 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $749.00 | ↑ +170% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $823.90 | ↑ +196% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,677.76 | ↑ +504% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,191.11 | ↑ +689% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,191.11 | ↑ +689% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,873.00 | ↑ +1294% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,460.00 | ↑ +1505% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,911.00 | ↑ +1667% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $4,981.00 | ↑ +1693% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,153.00 | ↑ +1754% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,921.00 | ↑ +2031% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,109.00 | ↑ +2098% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,182.00 | ↑ +2125% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7,080.00 | ↑ +2448% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8,247.00 | ↑ +2868% |
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Dx bronchoscope/brush 31623 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $274.89 | $242.67 – $749.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $782.71 | $298.48 – $3,574.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $755.85 | $242.67 – $1,017.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,402.60 | $242.67 – $1,586.62 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $383.77 | $242.67 – $979.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $1,300.17 | $227.70 – $2,277.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $720.60 | $242.67 – $2,446.68 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $891.36 | $1,945.86 – $6,920.00 |