Endo cath bile duct s&i at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$669.41
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.
$1,824.00
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.
$165.14 with LA Care vs $1,824.00 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 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $165.14 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $217.98 | ↓ -67% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $232.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $232.02 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $328.12 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $352.89 | ↓ -47% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $397.99 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $538.36 | ↓ -20% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $912.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $951.81 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,106.23 | ↑ +65% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,185.60 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,203.84 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,276.80 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,386.24 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,440.96 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,493.61 | ↑ +123% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,805.76 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,824.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,824.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,824.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Endo cath bile duct s&i at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $676.71 | $165.14 – $1,459.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,124.35 | $249.84 – $2,002.26 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,157.32 | $165.14 – $2,544.08 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,319.68 | $165.14 – $2,825.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,017.64 | $165.14 – $1,192.66 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,359.15 | $658.77 – $924.55 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $578.01 | $165.14 – $801.36 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $1,398.93 | $574.34 – $786.57 |