Insert cath pleura without image at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$2,048.67
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.
$5,522.00
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.
$105.95 with BCBS - Anthem vs $7,080.00 with Health Net — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $105.95 | ↓ -95% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $163.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $163.60 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $280.62 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $379.59 | ↓ -81% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,012.55 | ↓ -51% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,196.65 | ↓ -42% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,288.70 | ↓ -37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,399.16 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,435.98 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,435.98 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,454.39 | ↓ -29% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,472.80 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,730.54 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,841.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,841.00 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,841.00 | ↓ -10% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,841.00 | ↓ -10% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,841.00 | ↓ -10% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,025.10 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,894.00 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,185.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,123.84 | ↑ +101% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,363.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,619.00 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $4,911.00 | ↑ +140% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $4,981.00 | ↑ +143% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,153.00 | ↑ +152% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,890.00 | ↑ +188% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,921.00 | ↑ +189% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7,080.00 | ↑ +246% |
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Insert cath pleura without image at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,026.58 | $105.95 – $3,969.75 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,868.90 | $130.32 – $4,585.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,397.51 | $1,921.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $983.55 | $105.95 – $2,156.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $872.99 | $105.95 – $2,083.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,072.35 | $2,724.58 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $5,978.73 | $2,468.04 – $9,858.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $2,139.96 | $2,335.00 – $5,198.77 |