Xray place prox ext thor ao at Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield
2215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1104981661
$1,295.54
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.
$3,492.00
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.
$50.00 with United vs $3,492.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $50.00 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $186.34 | ↓ -86% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $261.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $261.81 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $449.08 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $607.47 | ↓ -53% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $791.23 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $830.51 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,746.00 | ↑ +35% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,746.00 | ↑ +35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,746.00 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,199.96 | ↑ +70% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $2,269.80 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,444.40 | ↑ +89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,653.92 | ↑ +105% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,793.60 | ↑ +116% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,003.12 | ↑ +132% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,492.00 | ↑ +170% |
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Xray place prox ext thor ao at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,281.57 | $186.34 – $2,758.68 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,596.03 | $281.92 – $4,623.06 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,564.08 | $186.34 – $4,362.40 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,004.96 | $1,003.68 – $2,967.61 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,869.45 | $50.00 – $3,412.20 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $271.76 | $158.00 – $931.70 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $278.79 | $50.00 – $931.70 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $480.00 | $984.37 – $2,741.95 |