Ablation cryo retro lymph node at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$497.66
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.
$1,356.00
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.
$366.12 with Kern Health System vs $6,060.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $366.12 | ↓ -26% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $366.12 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $555.48 | ↑ +12% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $611.03 | ↑ +23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $611.03 | ↑ +23% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $745.80 | ↑ +50% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $755.45 | ↑ +52% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $881.40 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $949.20 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,030.56 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,071.24 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,098.36 | ↑ +121% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,342.44 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,356.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,356.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,356.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,907.00 | ↑ +484% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,753.00 | ↑ +654% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +672% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +715% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,377.00 | ↑ +780% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,242.00 | ↑ +953% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,060.00 | ↑ +1118% |
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Ablation cryo retro lymph node at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | not published | $555.48 – $555.48 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $555.98 | $555.48 – $1,273.02 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $510.78 | $335.07 – $1,216.18 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $555.48 – $1,023.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $594.53 – $1,921.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $626.41 – $5,592.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $567.42 – $5,835.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | not published | $583.86 – $583.86 |