Tc-99m maa at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$143.58
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.
$387.00
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.
$30.00 with LA Care vs $309.60 with MultiPlan — 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.15 | ↓ -71% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $42.15 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $48.58 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.58 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $48.58 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $55.95 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $72.30 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $97.80 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $100.98 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $138.33 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $186.67 | ↑ +30% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $193.50 | ↑ +35% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $251.55 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $270.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $294.12 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $309.60 | ↑ +116% |
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Tc-99m maa at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $142.03 | $30.00 – $305.73 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $136.66 | $28.34 – $243.36 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $204.92 | $49.50 – $285.18 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $374.50 | $17.22 – $857.50 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $275.06 | $30.00 – $343.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $185.03 | $17.22 – $454.72 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $226.68 | $30.00 – $632.22 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $245.85 | $30.00 – $309.68 |