Bln dil 900ml preperitnl at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$910.16
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.
$2,480.00
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.
$216.25 with Kern Health System vs $865.00 with Aetna — 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $216.25 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $216.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $216.25 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $285.45 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $285.45 | ↓ -69% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $346.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $346.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $406.55 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $415.20 | ↓ -54% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $432.50 | ↓ -52% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $441.15 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $449.80 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $493.05 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $501.70 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $501.70 | ↓ -45% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $570.90 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $570.90 | ↓ -37% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $605.50 | ↓ -33% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $640.10 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $640.10 | ↓ -30% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $657.40 | ↓ -28% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $683.35 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $692.00 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $778.50 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $804.45 | ↓ -12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $804.45 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $839.05 | ↓ -8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $865.00 | ↓ -5% |
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Bln dil 900ml preperitnl at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $920.08 | $216.25 – $778.50 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,272.39 | $143.04 – $464.88 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,585.75 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,617.84 | $80.73 – $343.98 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,481.76 | $66.69 – $343.98 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,585.75 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,734.41 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $1,090.20 | not published |