Antibody screen rbc at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$180.20
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.
$491.00
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.
$3.65 with Kern Health System vs $92.33 with Kaiser — 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 | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.65 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.73 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $8.99 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.72 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.72 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $12.16 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $17.27 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $28.07 | ↓ -84% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $39.50 | ↓ -78% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $51.35 | ↓ -72% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $51.35 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $52.14 | ↓ -71% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $55.30 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $57.67 | ↓ -68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $60.04 | ↓ -67% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $62.41 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $64.42 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.15 | ↓ -63% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $67.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $69.32 | ↓ -62% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $71.10 | ↓ -61% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $74.68 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $74.68 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $79.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $92.33 | ↓ -49% |
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Antibody screen rbc at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $182.17 | $3.65 – $67.89 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $106.88 | $5.65 – $78.16 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $78.89 | $1.95 – $104.76 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $120.36 | $19.54 – $88.15 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $154.94 | $3.73 – $33.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $111.89 | $3.73 – $79.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $141.91 | $3.73 – $33.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $201.96 | $19.54 – $111.40 |