Beta-2 microglobulin at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$7.71
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.
$21.00
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.
$5.50 with Western Growers vs $46.51 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $5.50 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $7.15 | ↓ -7% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $7.15 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $7.26 | ↓ -6% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.70 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $8.03 | ↑ +4% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $8.36 | ↑ +8% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $8.69 | ↑ +13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.35 | ↑ +21% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.90 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +43% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $11.66 | ↑ +51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $12.10 | ↑ +57% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $14.96 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.51 | ↑ +503% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $46.51 | ↑ +503% |
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Beta-2 microglobulin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7.80 | $5.50 – $46.51 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.55 | $2.97 – $42.94 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $5.63 | $3.24 – $23.73 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $149.43 | $15.86 – $132.12 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $53.08 | $5.50 – $41.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $26.94 | $5.96 – $11.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $48.61 | $2.97 – $49.02 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $147.39 | $16.18 – $166.96 |