Bone tendon board add on at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$7,448.27
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.
$20,295.00
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.
$171.28 with BCBS - Anthem vs $20,295.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $171.28 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $199.17 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $269.02 | ↓ -96% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $5,073.75 | ↓ -32% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $5,073.75 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $5,073.75 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $6,697.35 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $6,697.35 | ↓ -10% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $8,118.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $8,118.00 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9,538.65 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9,741.60 | ↑ +31% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $10,147.50 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $10,350.45 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10,553.40 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,568.15 | ↑ +55% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11,771.10 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,771.10 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $13,394.70 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $13,394.70 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,206.50 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,018.30 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15,018.30 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $15,424.20 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16,033.05 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,265.50 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $19,686.15 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20,295.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Bone tendon board add on at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $7,529.45 | $408.31 – $18,265.50 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4,176.86 | $307.92 – $14,207.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,180.77 | $123.17 – $7,793.28 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $9,096.30 | $157.67 – $9,950.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $6,935.67 | $193.45 – $12,471.48 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $7,830.01 | $27.50 – $11,577.93 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $5,835.10 | $525.77 – $13,570.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $11,508.13 | $143.76 – $143.76 |