Iopamidol 250 mg iodine/ml (51 %) intravenous solution at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$187.73
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.
$506.00
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.
$0.48 with LA Care vs $46.00 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.48 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $0.56 | ↓ -100% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.67 | ↓ -100% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.67 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $0.68 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.68 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.68 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $1.16 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $1.56 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1.97 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3.64 | ↓ -98% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $18.40 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $18.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $23.00 | ↓ -88% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $23.46 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $32.20 | ↓ -83% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $34.96 | ↓ -81% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $36.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $46.00 | ↓ -75% |
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Iopamidol 250 mg iodine/ml (51 %) intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $185.71 | $0.48 – $36.34 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $97.24 | $0.54 – $1.56 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $180.03 | $0.52 – $0.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $521.74 | $0.32 – $1.96 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $210.89 | $0.48 – $45.08 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $470.01 | $0.32 – $1.96 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $156.63 | $0.56 – $0.88 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $153.03 | $0.67 – $0.89 |