Erwinaze injection at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$7,065.49
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.
$19,252.00
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.
$569.88 with BCBS - Anthem vs $13,752.18 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | $569.88 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $606.58 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $606.58 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $616.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $616.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $643.32 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $676.06 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $705.00 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $749.73 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $786.12 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $798.11 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $798.11 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $798.11 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $899.68 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $1,040.47 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,061.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $1,407.44 | ↓ -80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2,307.25 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $2,359.00 | ↓ -67% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $6,791.20 | ↓ -4% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,960.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6,960.98 | ↓ -1% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $8,489.00 | ↑ +20% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $8,658.78 | ↑ +23% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $11,884.60 | ↑ +68% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12,903.28 | ↑ +83% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $13,412.62 | ↑ +90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $13,752.18 | ↑ +95% |
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Erwinaze injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $423.42 – $1,039.96 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $458.33 – $1,039.96 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $546.72 – $1,039.96 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | not published | $411.15 – $1,079.62 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | not published | $548.06 – $548.06 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | not published | $455.24 – $1,039.96 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | not published | $560.43 – $1,039.96 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | not published | $411.15 – $1,180.20 |