Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$6,783.63
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.
$18,484.00
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.
$3.81 with Kaiser vs $2,867.40 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.81 | ↓ -100% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $4.19 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4.19 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.82 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.90 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.10 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.18 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.81 | ↓ -100% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.37 | ↓ -100% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.37 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.84 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $12.36 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $13.93 | ↓ -100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14.24 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $14.40 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.28 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $17.79 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $24.06 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $61.97 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.06 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $97.34 | ↓ -99% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,416.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,451.40 | ↓ -79% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,451.40 | ↓ -79% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,770.00 | ↓ -74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,478.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,690.40 | ↓ -60% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,796.60 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $2,867.40 | ↓ -58% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Darbepoetin alfa 100 mcg/0.5 ml in polysorbate injection syringe at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $16,050.00 | $3.81 – $9,102.24 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,051.75 | $1,962.30 – $7,433.50 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $580.95 | $3.81 – $1,452.36 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $8,626.41 | $3.07 – $42.01 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $8,626.41 | $3.07 – $50.12 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $8,626.41 | $5.99 – $50.24 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,265.03 | $7.38 – $1,593.48 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,017.00 | $3.81 – $7,332.00 |