Bx skin tangential ea sep/ addl les at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$76.71
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.
$209.00
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.
$38.42 with Care 1st vs $5,592.00 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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| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.42 | ↓ -50% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $53.98 | ↓ -30% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $53.98 | ↓ -30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $63.40 | ↓ -17% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $92.59 | ↑ +21% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $104.50 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $125.25 | ↑ +63% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $135.85 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $146.30 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $158.84 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $165.11 | ↑ +115% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $169.29 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $169.29 | ↑ +121% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $186.01 | ↑ +142% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $206.91 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $209.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $209.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $209.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3,244.80 | ↑ +4130% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +4543% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +4908% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +5187% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +5300% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +7190% |
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Bx skin tangential ea sep/ addl les at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | not published | $38.42 – $92.59 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,126.73 | $58.13 – $2,715.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $298.86 | $1,687.00 – $10,997.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $43.96 | $16.04 – $60.76 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $315.18 | $2,747.00 – $8,621.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,008.27 | $2,699.00 – $21,319.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $203.49 | $3,982.87 – $3,982.87 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $29.58 | $8,222.00 – $20,799.00 |