External newborn metabolic screening panel at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$87.56
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.
$236.00
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.
$118.00 with Western Growers vs $221.84 with United — 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $118.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $151.04 | ↑ +72% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $153.40 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $165.20 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $179.36 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $184.08 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $184.08 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $186.44 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $188.80 | ↑ +116% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $188.80 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $221.84 | ↑ +153% |
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External newborn metabolic screening panel at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $86.62 | $118.00 – $233.64 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $91.98 | $56.70 – $163.80 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $122.48 | $72.57 – $348.15 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $120.36 | $238.96 – $238.96 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $96.30 | $112.50 – $220.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $88.20 | $60.75 – $220.50 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $117.81 | $299.92 – $299.92 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $114.75 | not published |