Buprenorphine hydrochloride at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$24.23
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.
$66.00
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.
$1.93 with BCBS - Anthem vs $21.06 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1.93 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.24 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3.03 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.50 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.75 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.90 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.95 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.95 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.10 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.10 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $7.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $8.45 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.13 | ↓ -58% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.40 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↓ -56% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.66 | ↓ -56% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↓ -46% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $13.26 | ↓ -45% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.20 | ↓ -25% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.76 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $19.94 | ↓ -18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20.39 | ↓ -16% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.54 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $21.06 | ↓ -13% |
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Buprenorphine hydrochloride at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $24.49 | $2.89 – $20.80 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $32.96 | $1.39 – $24.44 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $58.84 | $1.77 – $111.14 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $47.69 | $2.59 – $107.42 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $43.65 | $3.32 – $71.10 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $55.10 | $3.76 – $135.20 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $18.09 | $1.55 – $41.50 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $29.97 | $1.65 – $73.80 |