Diphtheria-tetanus toxoids 0.5 ml (peds) at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$100.20
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.
$273.00
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.
$27.39 with BCBS - Anthem vs $194.00 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $27.39 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.75 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $27.75 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $27.75 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.84 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $43.01 | ↓ -57% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $77.60 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $79.54 | ↓ -21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $79.54 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $91.15 | ↓ -9% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $97.00 | ↓ -3% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $97.02 | ↓ -3% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $97.02 | ↓ -3% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $98.94 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $100.74 | ↑ +1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $100.74 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $105.08 | ↑ +5% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $122.45 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $124.26 | ↑ +24% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $135.80 | ↑ +36% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $146.96 | ↑ +47% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $147.44 | ↑ +47% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $153.26 | ↑ +53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $157.14 | ↑ +57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $166.41 | ↑ +66% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $194.00 | ↑ +94% |
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Diphtheria-tetanus toxoids 0.5 ml (peds) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $24.21 | $19.31 – $47.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $310.91 | $24.72 – $587.27 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $130.80 | $27.75 – $171.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $204.15 | $23.63 – $36.16 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $75.08 | $21.45 – $172.17 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $59.74 | $27.75 – $172.17 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $106.59 | $13.76 – $172.17 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $75.08 | $19.42 – $195.00 |