Cutter lead at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$4,405.84
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.
$12,005.00
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.
$166.25 with Kern Health System vs $665.00 with Aetna — 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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| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $166.25 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $166.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $166.25 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $219.45 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $219.45 | ↓ -95% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $266.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $266.00 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $312.55 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $319.20 | ↓ -93% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $332.50 | ↓ -92% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $339.15 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $345.80 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $379.05 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $385.70 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $385.70 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $438.90 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $438.90 | ↓ -90% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $465.50 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $492.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $492.10 | ↓ -89% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $505.40 | ↓ -89% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $525.35 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $532.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $598.50 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $618.45 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $618.45 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $645.05 | ↓ -85% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $665.00 | ↓ -85% |
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Cutter lead at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4,453.86 | $166.25 – $598.50 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $6,152.59 | $209.52 – $605.28 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $2,049.00 | $464.12 – $1,098.04 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $28,974.38 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $6,012.98 | $179.17 – $763.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5,507.21 | $148.01 – $763.42 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $28,974.38 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $11,379.38 | not published |