Bronchial valve remov init at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$3,396.22
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.
$9,254.00
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.
$195.09 with Care 1st vs $9,254.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $195.09 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $257.52 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $274.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $274.10 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $470.17 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $635.99 | ↓ -81% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,891.00 | ↑ +15% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,627.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4,684.64 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,982.00 | ↑ +47% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $5,153.10 | ↑ +52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $5,153.10 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,281.00 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,576.00 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,793.00 | ↑ +71% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $6,015.10 | ↑ +77% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,371.11 | ↑ +88% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,477.80 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $7,033.04 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,310.66 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $7,495.74 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,821.00 | ↑ +130% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,109.00 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9,161.46 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,254.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9,254.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $9,254.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Bronchial valve remov init at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,433.24 | $195.09 – $7,403.20 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $6,833.16 | $1,196.70 – $9,573.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $3,181.97 | $195.09 – $9,091.32 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,988.81 | $195.09 – $9,590.13 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | not published | $295.15 – $8,367.46 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $2,570.00 – $11,185.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | not published | $195.09 – $4,684.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | not published | $195.09 – $195.09 |