Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$62.50
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.
$170.28
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.
$23.05 with LA Care vs $100.84 with Cigna — 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $23.05 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $30.43 | ↓ -51% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $32.39 | ↓ -48% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $32.39 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $35.09 | ↓ -44% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $37.20 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $38.60 | ↓ -38% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $40.04 | ↓ -36% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $42.11 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.11 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $42.11 | ↓ -33% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $47.72 | ↓ -24% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $52.06 | ↓ -17% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $52.06 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $52.86 | ↓ -15% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $55.55 | ↓ -11% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $56.06 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $58.46 | ↓ -6% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $60.87 | ↓ -3% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $63.27 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $68.07 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.08 | ↑ +15% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $75.14 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $80.08 | ↑ +28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $80.08 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $80.08 | ↑ +28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $100.84 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.84 | ↑ +61% |
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Culture typing nucleic acid probe amplified per culture/isolate each organism at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $63.18 | $23.05 – $100.84 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $124.40 | $21.63 – $93.11 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $224.91 | $34.39 – $336.72 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $140.39 | $23.05 – $107.80 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $72.13 | $23.05 – $119.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $204.51 | $35.09 – $425.53 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $178.50 | $35.09 – $804.29 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $97.23 | $8.01 – $64.07 |