J-tube placement at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$2,938.70
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.
$7,921.00
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.
$2,138.67 with Kern Health System vs $13,582.00 with Aetna — 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $2,138.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $2,138.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,894.00 | ↓ -2% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,356.55 | ↑ +48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,619.00 | ↑ +57% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $5,148.65 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,544.70 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $5,736.00 | ↑ +95% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,019.96 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,178.38 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,178.38 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,257.59 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,336.80 | ↑ +116% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $7,049.69 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7,445.74 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,858.00 | ↑ +167% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $10,608.00 | ↑ +261% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12,949.00 | ↑ +341% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $13,582.00 | ↑ +362% |
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J-tube placement at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $2,907.01 | $240.83 – $7,841.79 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $250.42 | $97.28 – $368.48 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,215.59 | $768.60 – $3,074.40 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,138.54 | $209.82 – $3,426.39 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $1,921.00 – $6,619.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $5,592.00 – $10,593.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $5,835.00 – $10,413.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $2,335.00 – $2,335.00 |