Dextrose 5 % IV bolus 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.
$4.75 with BCBS - Anthem vs $43.74 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 | $4.75 | ↓ -76% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.11 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.73 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.94 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.94 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.01 | ↓ -70% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.03 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.03 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $8.38 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $8.77 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9.78 | ↓ -51% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.72 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $11.87 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $17.36 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $17.75 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $21.21 | ↑ +7% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $21.60 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.14 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.14 | ↑ +12% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.66 | ↑ +24% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $27.54 | ↑ +39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $33.31 | ↑ +68% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $41.04 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $42.66 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $43.74 | ↑ +121% |
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Dextrose 5 % IV bolus at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $20.04 | $3.34 – $43.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $5.51 – $53.71 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $65.33 | $7.28 – $13.28 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $5.51 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $3.64 – $52.92 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $65.33 | $7.28 – $14.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $65.33 | $6.08 – $17.15 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $65.33 | $5.36 – $33.87 |