Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$77.44
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.
$211.00
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.
$22.10 with BCBS - Anthem vs $96.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.10 | ↓ -71% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.76 | ↓ -71% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.76 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.73 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $27.62 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.62 | ↓ -64% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $38.40 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $39.04 | ↓ -50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $39.36 | ↓ -49% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $42.23 | ↓ -45% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $48.00 | ↓ -38% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $48.96 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $49.73 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49.73 | ↓ -36% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $52.81 | ↓ -32% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $56.03 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $60.45 | ↓ -22% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $67.20 | ↓ -13% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.54 | ↓ -6% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $72.96 | ↓ -6% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $75.84 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $77.27 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $77.76 | ↑ +0% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $78.72 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $79.01 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $91.20 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $96.00 | ↑ +24% |
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Clonidine (pf) 1,000 mcg/10 ml (100 mcg/ml) epidural solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $347.63 | $16.20 – $76.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $117.60 | $16.20 – $294.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $84.90 | $33.15 – $164.28 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $84.90 | $35.34 – $83.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $50.57 | $20.28 – $63.96 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $104.31 | $32.40 – $69.27 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $64.50 | $23.23 – $85.28 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $287.86 | $16.20 – $164.64 |