Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$40.07
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.
$108.00
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.
$12.40 with CHN Sun View vs $31.00 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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| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $12.40 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.71 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.71 | ↓ -68% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $15.50 | ↓ -61% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $15.81 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $21.08 | ↓ -47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $21.70 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $23.56 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $24.18 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.18 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $24.49 | ↓ -39% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $24.80 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.83 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.14 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $31.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $31.00 | ↓ -23% |
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Nitroglycerin 50 mg/250 ml (200 mcg/ml) in 5 % dextrose intravenous at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $39.64 | $7.75 – $31.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $18.09 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $89.76 | $2.07 – $2.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $115.99 | $24.30 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $106.24 | $46.44 – $168.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $89.76 | $2.24 – $2.88 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $89.76 | $2.67 – $2.88 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $145.35 | $1.59 – $5.28 |