Glucose blood quantitative at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$172.86
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.
$471.00
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.
$3.93 with Blue Shield CA vs $60.00 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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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.93 | ↓ -98% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4.17 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4.32 | ↓ -98% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.64 | ↓ -97% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.64 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.72 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.72 | ↓ -97% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.73 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.34 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.32 | ↓ -96% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11.27 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $11.40 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $15.42 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20.22 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $21.76 | ↓ -87% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $30.00 | ↓ -83% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $39.00 | ↓ -77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $39.00 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $39.60 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $41.76 | ↓ -76% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $42.00 | ↓ -76% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $45.60 | ↓ -74% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $47.40 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.53 | ↓ -72% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.00 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $60.00 | ↓ -65% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Glucose blood quantitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $174.75 | $3.93 – $48.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $87.60 | $3.93 – $12.27 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $254.49 | $3.85 – $32.09 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $108.72 | $3.93 – $11.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $49.95 | $3.93 – $9.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $99.57 | $3.24 – $11.88 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $114.24 | $3.93 – $40.56 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $70.89 | $3.93 – $46.00 |