CT thoracic spine w/contrast at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$3,273.64
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.
$8,920.00
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.
$226.19 with Kaiser vs $7,046.80 with MultiPlan — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $226.19 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $235.73 | ↓ -93% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $248.81 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $248.81 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $307.62 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $331.20 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $331.20 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $401.74 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $401.74 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $401.74 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $480.03 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $568.11 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $768.48 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,112.00 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,130.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $1,182.58 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $1,271.84 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,293.00 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,746.00 | ↓ -47% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $4,460.00 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $5,798.00 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $5,887.20 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6,244.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $6,779.20 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,046.80 | ↑ +115% |
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CT thoracic spine w/contrast at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,309.32 | $226.19 – $7,136.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,527.31 | $226.19 – $2,719.86 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,495.90 | $35.60 – $2,550.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $5,563.08 | $236.37 – $1,637.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,130.82 | $226.19 – $5,445.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,665.67 | $235.73 – $1,786.54 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,509.20 | $226.19 – $1,768.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $5,181.60 | $249.04 – $2,068.77 |