Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$107.54
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.
$293.00
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.
$42.76 with LA Care vs $232.00 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 |
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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $42.76 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $45.45 | ↓ -58% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $60.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $60.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $83.00 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $103.05 | ↓ -4% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $104.00 | ↓ -3% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $107.90 | ↑ +0% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $116.20 | ↑ +8% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $126.16 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $131.14 | ↑ +22% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $131.14 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $134.46 | ↑ +25% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $139.40 | ↑ +30% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $152.72 | ↑ +42% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $164.34 | ↑ +53% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $166.00 | ↑ +54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $166.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $166.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $166.00 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $166.00 | ↑ +54% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $232.00 | ↑ +116% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $232.00 | ↑ +116% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Established Patient Office Visit (level 3) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $642.42 | $59.21 – $226.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,479.42 | $39.60 – $354.05 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $150.23 | $34.43 – $351.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $138.53 | $36.22 – $137.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $149.36 | $34.43 – $343.98 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $302.43 | not published |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $161.16 | not published |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $198.75 | $34.43 – $554.32 |