Interferon beta-1b / .25 mg at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$579.51
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.
$1,562.00
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.
$228.40 with CHN Sun View vs $571.00 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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| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $228.40 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $234.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $234.11 | ↓ -60% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $285.50 | ↓ -51% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $291.21 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $358.50 | ↓ -38% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $399.70 | ↓ -31% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $433.96 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $443.06 | ↓ -24% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $456.80 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $491.11 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $528.66 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $571.00 | ↓ -1% |
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Interferon beta-1b / .25 mg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $573.26 | $142.75 – $571.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $1,260.00 | $138.43 – $2,800.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $376.93 | $186.53 – $1,351.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $1,208.59 | $151.70 – $3,091.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $1,179.80 | $576.81 – $2,895.20 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $430.18 | $63.14 – $1,685.82 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $342.26 | $214.12 – $1,685.82 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $452.16 | $235.34 – $1,685.82 |