Candida skin test at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$149.37
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.
$407.00
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.
$14.84 with BCBS - Anthem vs $57.69 with Cigna — 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.84 | ↓ -90% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $28.50 | ↓ -81% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $29.60 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.60 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -80% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $29.60 | ↓ -80% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.12 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $34.23 | ↓ -77% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $34.23 | ↓ -77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $37.05 | ↓ -75% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $37.05 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $37.62 | ↓ -75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.90 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $41.61 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $42.32 | ↓ -72% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $43.32 | ↓ -71% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $45.03 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.45 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $51.30 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $52.35 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $56.33 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $57.00 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $57.69 | ↓ -61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $57.69 | ↓ -61% |
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Candida skin test at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $151.00 | $28.50 – $57.69 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $233.54 | $32.71 – $327.20 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $120.84 | $29.54 – $337.02 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $226.60 | $12.93 – $413.60 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $128.62 | $14.95 – $461.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $115.70 | $1.00 – $68.82 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $111.65 | $1.00 – $68.82 |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center | Mission Hills | $29.40 | $1.00 – $68.82 |