Hemoglobin at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$53.22
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.
$145.00
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.
$2.37 with Blue Shield CA vs $101.70 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $2.37 | ↓ -96% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $2.51 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $2.61 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2.84 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.84 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2.84 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2.84 | ↓ -95% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.91 | ↓ -95% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $2.97 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3.22 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $3.48 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $6.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.81 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $7.16 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $9.68 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.20 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $13.13 | ↓ -75% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $25.10 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.17 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $39.38 | ↓ -26% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $56.50 | ↑ +6% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $72.80 | ↑ +37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $73.45 | ↑ +38% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $73.45 | ↑ +38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $74.58 | ↑ +40% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $79.04 | ↑ +49% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $82.16 | ↑ +54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $101.70 | ↑ +91% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hemoglobin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $53.80 | $2.37 – $83.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.89 | $1.89 – $6.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $10.13 | $0.47 – $7.76 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $34.68 | $2.32 – $19.29 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $70.62 | $2.37 – $6.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $23.98 | $2.37 – $32.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $64.68 | $1.89 – $7.18 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $54.06 | $2.37 – $24.38 |