Interferon alfa-2b inj at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$2,254.94
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.
$6,078.00
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.
$19.55 with Health Net vs $4,585.60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $19.55 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.82 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20.82 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20.82 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $22.87 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $27.29 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $36.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $36.88 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $37.03 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $54.02 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $60.08 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $82.30 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $111.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $159.17 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $171.83 | ↓ -92% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $2,292.80 | ↑ +2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,350.12 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $2,350.12 | ↑ +4% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,866.00 | ↑ +27% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,923.32 | ↑ +30% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $4,012.40 | ↑ +78% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,356.32 | ↑ +93% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,585.60 | ↑ +103% |
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Interferon alfa-2b inj at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,230.63 | $20.82 – $906.13 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $613.37 | $18.12 – $1,056.56 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $87.30 | $20.82 – $189.93 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $1,673.60 | $20.22 – $956.16 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $696.62 | $20.82 – $1,270.08 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $266.40 | $20.82 – $921.60 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $334.83 | $18.22 – $1,152.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $351.94 | $20.82 – $956.16 |