Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$2,524.60
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.
$6,879.00
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.
$223.39 with LA Care vs $13,913.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $223.39 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $294.87 | ↓ -88% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $313.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $313.86 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $538.37 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $696.67 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $728.25 | ↓ -71% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $766.34 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $766.34 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $947.47 | ↓ -62% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,158.00 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,232.37 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,432.31 | ↓ -43% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,505.40 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,528.56 | ↓ -39% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,621.20 | ↓ -36% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,760.16 | ↓ -30% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,829.64 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,933.88 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,316.00 | ↓ -8% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,753.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,377.00 | ↑ +73% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,242.00 | ↑ +108% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10,740.00 | ↑ +325% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $13,913.00 | ↑ +451% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $13,913.00 | ↑ +451% |
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Echo tee probe placement image acquisition interpretation & report at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $868.14 | $223.39 – $1,852.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,841.31 | $337.97 – $5,059.86 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,816.62 | $736.35 – $928.66 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,584.46 | $223.39 – $1,518.02 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $213.12 | $82.79 – $313.60 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,480.98 | $223.39 – $1,518.02 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,596.30 | $775.83 – $3,331.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,167.39 | $702.78 – $3,331.00 |