Chlorothiazide sodium 500 mg intravenous solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$909.43
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.
$2,478.00
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.
$19.56 with BCBS - Anthem vs $152.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $19.56 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.74 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $30.71 | ↓ -97% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $51.90 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $51.90 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.59 | ↓ -94% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $60.80 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $62.32 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $62.32 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $72.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $76.00 | ↓ -92% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $85.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $89.03 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $99.76 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $99.76 | ↓ -89% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $106.40 | ↓ -88% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $115.52 | ↓ -87% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $120.08 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $120.42 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $123.12 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $125.43 | ↓ -86% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $125.43 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $130.85 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $152.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $152.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $152.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.00 | ↓ -83% |
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Chlorothiazide sodium 500 mg intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $919.34 | $36.94 – $121.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $327.19 | $13.09 – $582.66 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $195.81 | $12.25 – $69.83 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $407.12 | $158.14 – $599.06 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $975.30 | $36.94 – $2,438.24 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $333.70 | $13.26 – $69.83 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $333.70 | $15.81 – $80.76 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $595.06 | $32.24 – $107.25 |