Desmopressin 4 mcg/ml injection solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital

420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$122.95

Cash price

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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.

$335.00

Gross charge

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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.

$4.95 with Humana vs $26.00 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Humana Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
United Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Other Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
Scan Health Plan Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
BrightHealth Commercial|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
HPN Medicare|All Plans $4.95 ↓ -96%
HPN Commercial|All Plans $5.45 ↓ -96%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|Burn $5.45 ↓ -96%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|All Plans $6.50 ↓ -95%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $6.73 ↓ -95%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $7.41 ↓ -94%
United Commercial|Options PPO $8.17 ↓ -93%
United Commercial|HMO $8.17 ↓ -93%
CHN Sun View Commercial|All Plans $10.40 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial|PPO $10.66 ↓ -91%
Cigna Commercial|All Other Plans $10.66 ↓ -91%
Western Growers Commercial|All Plans $13.00 ↓ -89%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $13.15 ↓ -89%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $13.15 ↓ -89%
United Commercial|Non-Options PPO $15.33 ↓ -88%
Health Net Commercial|Exchange $15.56 ↓ -87%
Health Net Commercial|Care Product $18.13 ↓ -85%
First Health Commercial|All Plans $18.20 ↓ -85%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $19.76 ↓ -84%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $20.54 ↓ -83%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|PremerTiered $21.06 ↓ -83%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|Exchange $21.32 ↓ -83%
Aetna Commercial|HMO $21.42 ↓ -83%
Health Net Commercial|All Other Plans $21.76 ↓ -82%
Aetna Commercial|PPO $21.90 ↓ -82%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $24.70 ↓ -80%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $26.00 ↓ -79%

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Desmopressin 4 mcg/ml injection solution at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $1,256.21 $4.95 – $24.00
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $622.84 $4.95 – $188.76
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $84.15 $8.98 – $24.84
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $344.12 $4.95 – $787.92
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $315.17 $4.95 – $787.92
Queen of The Valley Medical Center Napa $116.22 $8.98 – $26.89
Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka Eureka $116.22 $7.79 – $32.07
Redwood Memorial Hospital Fortuna $84.15 $7.79 – $32.15

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