Change cystostomy tube; complex 51710 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$230.85
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.
$629.00
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.
$120.48 with Partnership Health Plan vs $6,060.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $120.48 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $198.79 | ↓ -14% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $266.82 | ↑ +16% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $266.82 | ↑ +16% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $345.95 | ↑ +50% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $408.85 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $440.30 | ↑ +91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $457.68 | ↑ +98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $478.04 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $496.91 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $509.49 | ↑ +121% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $619.11 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $622.71 | ↑ +170% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $629.00 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $691.90 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $691.90 | ↑ +200% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +267% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +267% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $855.44 | ↑ +271% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,907.00 | ↑ +1159% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +1443% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,753.00 | ↑ +1526% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +1564% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +1657% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +1694% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,377.00 | ↑ +1796% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,242.00 | ↑ +2171% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +2322% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,060.00 | ↑ +2525% |
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Change cystostomy tube; complex 51710 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $233.36 | $120.48 – $629.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,196.62 | $148.19 – $2,130.96 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,681.58 | $939.68 – $2,695.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,129.25 | $990.07 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,419.84 | $896.84 – $8,018.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $768.57 | $939.50 – $3,982.87 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $1,056.72 | $3,331.00 – $20,799.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $966.68 | $120.48 – $1,340.64 |