Cytopath tbs c/v manual at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$17.62
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.
$48.00
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.
$8.00 with Western Growers vs $45.76 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $8.00 | ↓ -55% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.40 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $10.56 | ↓ -40% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.20 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $11.68 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.16 | ↓ -31% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.64 | ↓ -28% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.56 | ↓ -23% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.56 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.60 | ↓ -23% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $13.84 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.44 | ↓ -18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $16.00 | ↓ -9% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $16.96 | ↓ -4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $17.60 | ↓ -0% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $21.76 | ↑ +23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.76 | ↑ +160% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $45.76 | ↑ +160% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $17.81 | $8.00 – $45.76 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $34.61 | $18.18 – $61.62 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $14.41 | $10.29 – $40.18 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $46.01 | $7.50 – $69.20 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $43.80 | $13.84 – $69.20 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $35.86 | $7.50 – $35.51 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $36.63 | $9.00 – $69.20 |
| Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro | San Pedro | $93.10 | $18.54 – $36.38 |