Diatrizoate meglumine 18 % urethral solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$20.56
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.
$56.00
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.
$0.08 with LA Care vs $56.00 with Health Net — 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.08 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $0.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.11 | ↓ -99% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.11 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $0.12 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.13 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $0.19 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $0.24 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $0.26 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.27 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $0.37 | ↓ -98% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $22.40 | ↑ +9% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.96 | ↑ +12% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.96 | ↑ +12% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $28.00 | ↑ +36% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $28.56 | ↑ +39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $39.20 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $42.56 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $44.24 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $45.36 | ↑ +121% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $56.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Diatrizoate meglumine 18 % urethral solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $93.50 | $0.08 – $44.80 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $112.61 | $0.15 – $0.17 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $270.50 | $0.08 – $362.60 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $37.30 | $0.08 – $54.88 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $247.75 | $0.08 – $352.80 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $45.90 | $0.16 – $0.17 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $45.90 | $0.15 – $0.19 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $37.34 | $0.08 – $45.92 |