Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$19.82
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.
$54.00
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.
$1.56 with BCBS - Anthem vs $54.00 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.
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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1.56 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $1.76 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $1.76 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.95 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.95 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $3.01 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $4.08 | ↓ -79% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4.53 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.53 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $5.09 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5.50 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $5.96 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6.10 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.61 | ↓ -67% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $21.60 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $27.54 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $34.57 | ↑ +74% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.19 | ↑ +103% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $41.04 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $42.66 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $43.74 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $54.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Dextrose 5 % and 0.9 % sodium chloride intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $20.04 | $1.25 – $43.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $1.42 – $19.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $65.33 | $2.51 – $21.65 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $42.80 | $1.75 – $29.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $1.25 – $29.40 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $65.33 | $2.51 – $23.43 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $65.33 | $2.69 – $27.95 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $65.33 | $2.36 – $55.20 |