Brachy source yttrium-90 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$25,807.81
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.
$70,321.00
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.
$17,580.25 with BCBS - Anthem vs $70,321.00 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $17,580.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $17,580.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $17,580.25 | ↓ -32% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $22,216.57 | ↓ -14% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $23,205.93 | ↓ -10% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $23,205.93 | ↓ -10% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $24,438.23 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $24,438.23 | ↓ -5% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $28,128.40 | ↑ +9% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $28,128.40 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $30,214.54 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $33,050.87 | ↑ +28% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $33,754.08 | ↑ +31% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $35,160.50 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $36,566.92 | ↑ +42% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40,082.97 | ↑ +55% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40,786.18 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $40,786.18 | ↑ +58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $46,411.86 | ↑ +80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $46,411.86 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $49,224.70 | ↑ +91% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $52,037.54 | ↑ +102% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $52,037.54 | ↑ +102% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $53,443.96 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $55,553.59 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $56,256.80 | ↑ +118% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $63,288.90 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $65,398.53 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $65,398.53 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $68,211.37 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $70,321.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Brachy source yttrium-90 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $26,089.10 | $17,580.25 – $56,256.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $27,230.46 | $14,920.80 – $48,492.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $59,436.32 | $17,415.59 – $17,771.01 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $26,608.76 | $14,299.10 – $60,926.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $24,370.64 | $11,812.30 – $60,926.60 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $59,436.32 | $17,771.01 – $17,771.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $22,534.63 | not published |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $26,569.22 | not published |