Administration immunization intranasal/oral route each additional vaccine at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$69.73
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.
$190.00
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.
$95.00 with Western Growers vs $190.00 with United — 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 | $95.00 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $123.50 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $133.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $144.40 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $150.10 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $153.90 | ↑ +121% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $188.10 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $190.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $190.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $190.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Administration immunization intranasal/oral route each additional vaccine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $70.49 | $95.00 – $152.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $19.98 | $7.77 – $29.40 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $13.77 | not published |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $15.81 | not published |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $12.35 | $8.82 – $35.28 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $27.30 | $31.80 – $52.47 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $70.62 | $15.54 – $159.08 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $73.10 | $38.50 – $154.00 |