Unlisted muscskel px head at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$266.01
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.
$717.00
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.
$193.59 with Kern Health System vs $13,582.00 with Aetna — 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.59 | ↓ -27% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.59 | ↓ -27% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $295.06 | ↑ +11% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $324.57 | ↑ +22% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $394.35 | ↑ +48% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $466.05 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $501.90 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $544.92 | ↑ +105% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $559.26 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $559.26 | ↑ +110% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $566.43 | ↑ +113% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $573.60 | ↑ +116% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $660.93 | ↑ +148% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $673.98 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Community Care PPO | $2,895.00 | ↑ +988% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,441.00 | ↑ +1194% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,873.00 | ↑ +1356% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $4,116.00 | ↑ +1447% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,182.00 | ↑ +2224% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12,949.00 | ↑ +4768% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $13,582.00 | ↑ +5006% |
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Unlisted muscskel px head at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | not published | $295.06 – $295.06 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $285.91 | $295.06 – $654.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $261.86 | $180.36 – $654.64 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $174.05 | $124.32 – $497.28 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $295.06 – $521.66 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $319.18 – $2,570.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $336.29 – $7,483.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $304.63 – $7,809.00 |