Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$3.34
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.
$9.00
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.
$0.20 with Health Net vs $3.64 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 | $0.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $0.22 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $0.28 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.37 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $0.37 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $0.41 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $0.41 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.41 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.41 | ↓ -88% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1.60 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.64 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1.64 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1.97 | ↓ -41% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2.00 | ↓ -40% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2.04 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.70 | ↓ -19% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2.80 | ↓ -16% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3.04 | ↓ -9% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3.20 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3.64 | ↑ +9% |
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Methylprednisolone 4 mg tablet at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3.31 | $0.40 – $3.16 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6.57 | $0.37 – $11.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5.61 | $0.49 – $0.52 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $9.42 | $0.38 – $21.56 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5.39 | $2.10 – $7.93 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8.63 | $0.37 – $21.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $12.41 | $0.49 – $0.56 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $12.41 | $0.47 – $0.67 |