Butorphanol tartrate 1 mg at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$10.65
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.
$29.00
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.
$4.77 with United vs $26.00 with Health Net — 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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| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.77 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.74 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $8.06 | ↓ -24% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.37 | ↓ -12% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.37 | ↓ -12% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $10.33 | ↓ -3% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.40 | ↓ -2% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.66 | ↑ +0% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↑ +0% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.81 | ↑ +11% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.81 | ↑ +11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $11.98 | ↑ +12% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.41 | ↑ +17% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.86 | ↑ +21% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.86 | ↑ +21% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↑ +22% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $13.26 | ↑ +25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $13.38 | ↑ +26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.93 | ↑ +31% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.20 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $18.82 | ↑ +77% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.76 | ↑ +86% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.54 | ↑ +93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $21.06 | ↑ +98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $22.05 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $22.37 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $22.87 | ↑ +115% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $26.00 | ↑ +144% |
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Butorphanol tartrate 1 mg at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $21.52 | $3.21 – $24.65 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $4.77 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $85.68 | $7.50 – $10.08 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $4.77 – $52.92 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $85.68 | $9.71 – $10.11 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $14.94 | $4.77 – $24.49 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $13.12 | $2.71 – $42.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $58.24 | $7.87 – $20.92 |