Bx breast pq tomo guide at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$1,695.91
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.
$4,621.00
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.
$1,218.24 with Kern Health System vs $9,100.00 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,218.24 | ↓ -28% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,218.24 | ↓ -28% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $2,481.60 | ↑ +46% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $2,932.80 | ↑ +73% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,158.40 | ↑ +86% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,429.12 | ↑ +102% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,564.48 | ↑ +110% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $3,654.72 | ↑ +116% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +127% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,891.00 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4,466.88 | ↑ +163% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $4,512.00 | ↑ +166% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,865.48 | ↑ +187% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4,865.48 | ↑ +187% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $4,963.20 | ↑ +193% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4,963.20 | ↑ +193% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,136.32 | ↑ +262% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $6,515.00 | ↑ +284% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,599.00 | ↑ +348% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,109.00 | ↑ +378% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,100.00 | ↑ +437% |
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Bx breast pq tomo guide at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,714.40 | $1,247.67 – $4,621.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4,708.41 | $305.13 – $1,453.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,576.81 | $1,262.58 – $3,826.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $6,331.68 | $3,263.75 – $10,313.45 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $5,225.18 | $2,097.70 – $15,828.10 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $4,157.26 | $4,745.23 – $19,070.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $7,418.23 | $2,097.70 – $19,070.00 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $5,225.18 | $2,097.70 – $19,070.00 |