Brace oths wrist hnd fngr without at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$317.46
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.
$865.00
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.
$33.75 with Kern Health System vs $135.00 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $33.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $33.75 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $44.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $44.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $54.00 | ↓ -83% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $54.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $63.45 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $64.80 | ↓ -80% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $67.50 | ↓ -79% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $68.85 | ↓ -78% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $70.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.95 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $78.30 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $78.30 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $89.10 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $89.10 | ↓ -72% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $94.50 | ↓ -70% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $99.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $99.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $102.60 | ↓ -68% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $106.65 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $108.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $121.50 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $125.55 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $125.55 | ↓ -60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $130.95 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $135.00 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $135.00 | ↓ -57% |
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Brace oths wrist hnd fngr without at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $320.92 | $33.75 – $121.50 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $977.62 | $48.72 – $158.34 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $453.57 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $196.46 | $46.69 – $198.94 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $179.93 | $38.57 – $198.94 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $351.11 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $429.56 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $293.48 | not published |