Assay toxin or antitoxin at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$33.41
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.
$91.01
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.
$19.74 with Blue Shield CA vs $91.01 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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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $19.74 | ↓ -41% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $20.92 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $21.71 | ↓ -35% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $23.69 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $23.69 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $23.69 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $23.69 | ↓ -29% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.66 | ↓ -26% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.66 | ↓ -26% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.17 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $26.85 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.01 | ↑ +8% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $45.51 | ↑ +36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $56.72 | ↑ +70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $56.72 | ↑ +70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $59.16 | ↑ +77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $59.16 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $60.07 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $60.66 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $63.71 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $66.44 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $69.17 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $71.90 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $77.36 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $81.91 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $82.05 | ↑ +146% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $91.01 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $91.01 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $91.01 | ↑ +172% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Assay toxin or antitoxin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $33.77 | $19.74 – $72.81 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $124.83 | $19.74 – $222.30 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $16.18 | $3.95 – $28.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $138.21 | $19.35 – $161.19 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $38.96 | $10.75 – $50.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $61.68 | $19.74 – $90.75 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $35.68 | $6.67 – $59.79 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $16.56 | $19.74 – $203.70 |