App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm 1st 100sq cm at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$2,141.08
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.
$5,834.00
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.
$203.28 with Care 1st vs $8,109.00 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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| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $203.28 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $233.92 | ↓ -89% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $313.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $313.99 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $538.59 | ↓ -75% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $728.54 | ↓ -66% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $876.50 | ↓ -59% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,139.45 | ↓ -47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,227.10 | ↓ -43% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,332.28 | ↓ -38% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,384.87 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,419.93 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,735.47 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,753.00 | ↓ -18% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $1,928.30 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $1,928.30 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2,324.22 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $2,324.22 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,384.08 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,891.00 | ↑ +82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,281.00 | ↑ +147% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $5,420.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,576.00 | ↑ +160% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +161% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,323.00 | ↑ +195% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7,572.00 | ↑ +254% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,109.00 | ↑ +279% |
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App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f >100sq cm 1st 100sq cm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | not published | $203.28 – $2,324.22 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,529.28 | $226.00 – $3,856.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,760.52 | $2,779.95 – $5,198.77 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $2,815.40 | $1,528.00 – $4,449.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $1,760.85 | $1,528.00 – $4,449.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $1,345.44 | $2,255.66 – $6,652.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $2,570.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | not published | $203.28 – $2,324.22 |