Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$125.89
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.
$343.00
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.
$9.75 with BCBS - Anthem vs $26.00 with Aetna — 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 | $9.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.20 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.20 | ↓ -92% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.40 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $10.66 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $11.07 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.22 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $11.45 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $11.45 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.19 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.19 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $12.90 | ↓ -90% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $13.00 | ↓ -90% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $13.26 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13.45 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.47 | ↓ -88% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $18.20 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $19.64 | ↓ -84% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.76 | ↓ -84% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $20.54 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $21.06 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $21.32 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.70 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $26.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $26.00 | ↓ -79% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $26.00 | ↓ -79% |
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Dobutamine 250 mg/20 ml (12.5 mg/ml) intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $127.26 | $4.41 – $20.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $8.00 – $52.26 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $145.35 | $14.84 – $17.52 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $104.44 | $10.61 – $66.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $123.09 | $8.15 – $90.16 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $191.76 | $16.06 – $17.52 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $191.76 | $15.95 – $19.16 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $191.76 | $6.80 – $37.83 |