App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f <100sq cm addl <25sq cm at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$229.75
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.
$626.00
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.
$23.25 with Care 1st vs $5,592.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.25 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $27.03 | ↓ -88% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $36.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $36.28 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $62.23 | ↓ -73% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $84.17 | ↓ -63% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $288.00 | ↑ +25% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $374.40 | ↑ +63% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $403.20 | ↑ +75% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $437.76 | ↑ +91% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $455.04 | ↑ +98% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $466.56 | ↑ +103% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $466.56 | ↑ +103% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $512.64 | ↑ +123% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $570.24 | ↑ +148% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $576.00 | ↑ +151% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $576.00 | ↑ +151% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $576.00 | ↑ +151% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $898.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,871.00 | ↑ +714% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3,244.80 | ↑ +1312% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +1450% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +1572% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +1665% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +1703% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +2334% |
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App high cost ss f/n/g/h/f <100sq cm addl <25sq cm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | not published | $23.25 – $62.23 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $435.34 | $28.60 – $830.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $47.96 | $17.86 – $67.62 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,760.52 | $721.00 – $3,982.87 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $281.75 | $353.00 – $4,776.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $124.60 | $353.00 – $4,751.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $532.32 | $1,394.00 – $11,456.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $119.15 | $32.21 – $230.30 |