Encephalitis, california igg/igm at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$25.53
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.
$69.55
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.
$8.24 with Western Growers vs $37.89 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $8.24 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.72 | ↓ -58% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $10.72 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $10.88 | ↓ -57% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11.54 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $12.04 | ↓ -53% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.53 | ↓ -51% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13.02 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $13.19 | ↓ -48% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $13.98 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.01 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $14.51 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.84 | ↓ -42% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $15.83 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.83 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $15.83 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $15.83 | ↓ -38% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.47 | ↓ -35% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.47 | ↓ -35% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $16.48 | ↓ -35% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37.89 | ↑ +48% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $37.89 | ↑ +48% |
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Encephalitis, california igg/igm at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $25.81 | $8.24 – $37.89 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.92 | $2.64 – $19.34 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $43.79 | $12.93 – $107.66 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $7.43 | $8.67 – $33.97 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $6.80 | $4.69 – $39.94 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $43.79 | $13.19 – $136.06 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $43.79 | $13.19 – $154.29 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $39.72 | $1.65 – $13.19 |