Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$310.12
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.
$845.00
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.
$149.91 with Partnership Health Plan vs $4,362.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $247.35 | ↓ -20% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $333.93 | ↑ +8% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $333.93 | ↑ +8% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $410.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $421.45 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $444.66 | ↑ +43% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $463.60 | ↑ +49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $463.60 | ↑ +49% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $477.65 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $525.44 | ↑ +69% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $533.65 | ↑ +72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $572.78 | ↑ +85% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $573.17 | ↑ +85% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $574.70 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $591.12 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $623.96 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $648.59 | ↑ +109% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $738.90 | ↑ +138% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $774.80 | ↑ +150% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $796.37 | ↑ +157% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $796.37 | ↑ +157% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $821.00 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $821.00 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $821.00 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $821.00 | ↑ +165% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $821.00 | ↑ +165% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,631.00 | ↑ +748% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,123.00 | ↑ +907% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,643.00 | ↑ +1075% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $4,130.00 | ↑ +1232% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,362.00 | ↑ +1307% |
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Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $322.77 | $149.91 – $843.90 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $425.74 | $108.73 – $834.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,228.79 | $149.91 – $11,311.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $453.55 | $149.91 – $667.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $984.32 | $149.91 – $9,050.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $428.91 | $424.83 – $1,333.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $271.07 | $97.02 – $1,266.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $355.47 | $390.55 – $459.61 |