88334 ap bill cytologic exam each additional site at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$66.06
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.
$180.00
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.
$13.72 with Western Growers vs $55.70 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 | $13.72 | ↓ -79% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $17.83 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $18.11 | ↓ -73% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $19.21 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $20.03 | ↓ -70% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $20.85 | ↓ -68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.67 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.03 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.03 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.03 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.03 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.32 | ↓ -65% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $27.43 | ↓ -58% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $55.70 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.70 | ↓ -16% |
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88334 ap bill cytologic exam each additional site at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $66.78 | $13.72 – $55.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $92.82 | $36.08 – $117.15 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $9.07 | $10.59 – $49.95 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $16.65 | $5.31 – $20.51 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8.30 | $5.72 – $58.72 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $98.43 | $36.08 – $164.73 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $142.29 | $36.08 – $117.43 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $15.67 | $2.75 – $21.95 |