Melphalan oral 2 mg at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$16.33
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.
$44.00
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.
$5.82 with Health Net vs $22.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $5.82 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6.81 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8.13 | ↓ -50% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $8.80 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $9.02 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.02 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.99 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.99 | ↓ -33% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $11.00 | ↓ -33% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $11.22 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $14.96 | ↓ -8% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $15.40 | ↓ -6% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $16.72 | ↑ +2% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $17.60 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.46 | ↑ +25% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $21.29 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $21.29 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $21.29 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.29 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $22.00 | ↑ +35% |
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Melphalan oral 2 mg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $10.59 | $4.68 – $30.84 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $22.15 | $5.50 – $22.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $5.51 | $9.34 – $27.74 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $12.06 | $2.42 – $22.00 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $9.60 | $7.91 – $22.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $17.12 | $2.42 – $22.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $12.06 | $2.42 – $22.00 |
| Methodist Hospital of Sacramento | Sacramento | $12.68 | $9.02 – $22.00 |