App high cost ss t/a/l <100sq cm addl <25sq cm at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$211.40
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.
$576.00
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.
$16.42 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 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.42 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $18.68 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.07 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $42.99 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $58.16 | ↓ -72% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $225.50 | ↑ +7% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $293.15 | ↑ +39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $315.70 | ↑ +49% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $342.76 | ↑ +62% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $356.29 | ↑ +69% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $365.31 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $365.31 | ↑ +73% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $401.39 | ↑ +90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $446.49 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $451.00 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $451.00 | ↑ +113% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $451.00 | ↑ +113% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $898.00 | ↑ +325% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,871.00 | ↑ +785% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3,244.80 | ↑ +1435% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +1585% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +1717% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +1819% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +1859% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +2545% |
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App high cost ss t/a/l <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 | $16.42 – $42.99 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $435.34 | $20.20 – $830.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $32.64 | $12.16 – $46.06 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,759.50 | $721.00 – $3,982.87 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $344.44 | $16.42 – $619.36 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $451.50 | $353.00 – $4,776.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $199.15 | $353.00 – $4,751.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $909.12 | $1,266.00 – $13,012.00 |