Tissue culture tumor at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$64.93
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.
$175.00
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.
$87.50 with Western Growers vs $423.93 with Cigna — 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $87.50 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $110.25 | ↑ +70% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $113.75 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $122.50 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $133.00 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $140.00 | ↑ +116% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $147.52 | ↑ +127% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $150.50 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.00 | ↑ +170% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $330.44 | ↑ +409% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $423.93 | ↑ +553% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $423.93 | ↑ +553% |
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Tissue culture tumor at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $64.23 | $87.50 – $423.93 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $69.21 | $80.85 – $380.11 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $63.39 | $43.66 – $446.85 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $51.45 | $36.75 – $175.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $160.37 | $107.19 – $202.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $211.77 | $147.52 – $759.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $51.78 | $63.65 – $95.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $32.81 | $147.52 – $393.69 |