Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$18.55
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.
$50.00
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.
$25.00 with Western Growers vs $111.71 with Kaiser — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $25.00 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $31.50 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $32.00 | ↑ +73% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $32.50 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $35.00 | ↑ +89% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $35.35 | ↑ +91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $35.35 | ↑ +91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.09 | ↑ +95% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $38.00 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $40.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.00 | ↑ +116% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $40.61 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $40.61 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.61 | ↑ +119% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $40.61 | ↑ +119% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $43.00 | ↑ +132% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $49.87 | ↑ +169% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $50.00 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $50.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $50.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $50.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $50.00 | ↑ +170% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $54.86 | ↑ +196% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.53 | ↑ +356% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $84.53 | ↑ +356% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $111.71 | ↑ +502% |
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Irradiation of blood product each unit reference at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $18.35 | $25.00 – $84.53 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $97.68 | $40.61 – $173.94 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $100.16 | $36.09 – $129.36 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $47.29 | $18.37 – $69.58 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $91.73 | $35.64 – $129.36 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $14.70 | $10.50 – $50.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $52.91 | $16.32 – $66.64 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $25.75 | $14.50 – $49.87 |