Bone marrow imaging body at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$697.67
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.
$1,901.00
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.
$221.97 with BCBS - Anthem vs $1,976.45 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 |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $221.97 | ↓ -68% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -27% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $561.63 | ↓ -19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $561.63 | ↓ -19% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $694.38 | ↓ -0% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $840.52 | ↑ +20% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $903.96 | ↑ +30% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $950.50 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,235.65 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,238.52 | ↑ +78% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,254.66 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,330.70 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,439.46 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,444.76 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,501.79 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,901.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,976.45 | ↑ +183% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,976.45 | ↑ +183% |
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Bone marrow imaging body at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $705.28 | $510.57 – $1,976.45 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $821.69 | $506.52 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,444.66 | $80.37 – $2,088.41 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $526.26 | $187.95 – $848.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,408.18 | $228.70 – $1,773.80 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,057.81 | $193.38 – $884.54 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $2,557.83 | $329.98 – $5,762.14 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $507.31 | $210.20 – $1,364.43 |