CT guid parench tis ablat at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$299.48
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$816.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$160.82 with Care 1st vs $1,130.00 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $160.82 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $212.28 | ↓ -29% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $225.95 | ↓ -25% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $225.95 | ↓ -25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $387.58 | ↑ +29% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $408.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $524.27 | ↑ +75% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $530.40 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $538.56 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $571.20 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $595.68 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $620.16 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $644.64 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $693.60 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $807.84 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $816.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.00 | ↑ +277% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,130.00 | ↑ +277% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
CT guid parench tis ablat at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $302.74 | $160.82 – $1,130.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $377.12 | $232.47 – $861.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $217.00 | $160.82 – $1,756.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $156.51 | $50.45 – $191.10 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $198.75 | $136.89 – $1,768.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $90.85 | $31.08 – $3,330.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $5,221.89 | $2,165.12 – $2,482.19 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,572.96 | $2,031.16 – $3,231.47 |