Bronchoscopy/needle bx addl 31633 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$920.07
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.
$2,507.00
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.
$83.94 with Care 1st vs $6,060.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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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| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $83.94 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $96.32 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $129.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $129.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $221.77 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $299.99 | ↓ -67% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,253.50 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,629.55 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,754.90 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,905.32 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,980.53 | ↑ +115% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $2,030.67 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $2,030.67 | ↑ +121% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,231.23 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,481.93 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,507.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,507.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,507.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,907.00 | ↑ +216% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3,244.80 | ↑ +253% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +287% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +350% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5,281.00 | ↑ +474% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $5,576.00 | ↑ +506% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +508% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,060.00 | ↑ +559% |
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Bronchoscopy/needle bx addl 31633 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $930.10 | $83.94 – $2,030.67 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $1,325.30 | $232.10 – $1,856.80 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $672.97 | $73.15 – $1,922.76 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,565.34 | $99.48 – $1,971.76 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,314.28 | $83.94 – $2,526.48 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $809.67 | $61.46 – $2,452.65 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $1,003.86 | $116.31 – $1,940.40 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $644.19 | $61.46 – $2,364.00 |