Paricalcitol at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$89.79
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.
$242.00
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.
$0.48 with Health Net vs $43.70 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 | $0.48 | ↓ -99% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.81 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.14 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $1.49 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.49 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.49 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $1.78 | ↓ -98% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2.40 | ↓ -97% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.40 | ↓ -97% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $19.20 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $19.68 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.68 | ↓ -78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $23.64 | ↓ -74% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $24.00 | ↓ -73% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $24.48 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32.38 | ↓ -64% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $33.60 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $36.48 | ↓ -59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $38.40 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $43.70 | ↓ -51% |
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Paricalcitol at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $1.14 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $84.15 | $1.62 – $6.21 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $77.90 | $1.11 – $178.36 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $1.62 – $6.72 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $1.34 – $8.02 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $57.92 | $0.98 – $53.30 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $84.15 | $1.62 – $6.68 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $48.93 | $0.81 – $24.44 |