Fibrinogen activity 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.
$9.72 with BCBS - Anthem vs $111.00 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 | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -91% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $10.30 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $10.69 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.72 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.72 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $10.94 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11.66 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11.66 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $11.66 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.66 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $13.22 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $14.57 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $26.37 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $27.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.94 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $35.66 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $43.81 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $47.14 | ↓ -56% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $55.50 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $72.15 | ↓ -33% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $72.15 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $73.26 | ↓ -32% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $77.70 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $81.03 | ↓ -25% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $84.36 | ↓ -22% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.69 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $94.35 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $99.90 | ↓ -7% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $111.00 | ↑ +3% |
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Fibrinogen activity at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $108.71 | $9.72 – $88.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $197.10 | $9.72 – $30.33 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.88 | $1.94 – $12.59 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $194.31 | $9.53 – $68.92 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $114.71 | $7.02 – $25.05 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $153.18 | $9.72 – $225.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $105.06 | $3.79 – $29.45 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $450.84 | $9.72 – $87.09 |