Thiotepa injection at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$2,480.88
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.
$6,687.00
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.
$352.50 with Health Net vs $2,273.60 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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| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $352.50 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $360.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $360.00 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $365.89 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $365.89 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $365.89 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $393.13 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $469.22 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $503.99 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $520.03 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $712.38 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $961.33 | ↓ -61% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,136.80 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,165.22 | ↓ -53% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,165.22 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,287.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,389.37 | ↓ -44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,421.00 | ↓ -43% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $1,449.42 | ↓ -42% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,989.40 | ↓ -20% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,159.92 | ↓ -13% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,273.60 | ↓ -8% |
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Thiotepa injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,618.85 | $145.96 – $2,882.88 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,255.50 | $270.57 – $4,500.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $3,204.60 | $246.38 – $2,449.02 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $1,841.28 | $175.06 – $2,370.48 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $1,464.96 | $259.75 – $2,284.80 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $136.63 – $526.86 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $147.89 – $526.86 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $176.41 – $526.86 |