Hla typing a b or c at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$132.12
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.
$360.00
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.
$58.00 with Blue Shield CA vs $360.00 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 | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $58.00 | ↓ -56% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $61.48 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $63.80 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $69.60 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $69.60 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $69.60 | ↓ -47% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $69.60 | ↓ -47% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $72.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $72.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $73.94 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $76.31 | ↓ -42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $78.88 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $166.67 | ↑ +26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $166.67 | ↑ +26% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $178.20 | ↑ +35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $180.00 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $211.16 | ↑ +60% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $227.22 | ↑ +72% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $234.00 | ↑ +77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $234.00 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $237.60 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $241.04 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $252.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $262.80 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $273.60 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $284.40 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $306.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $324.00 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $360.00 | ↑ +172% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Hla typing a b or c at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $133.56 | $58.00 – $288.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $205.56 | $36.00 – $288.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $105.84 | $49.30 – $295.20 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $172.38 | $56.84 – $508.92 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $185.40 | $58.00 – $338.40 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $128.08 | $58.00 – $230.30 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $112.46 | $58.00 – $154.75 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $172.00 | $57.81 – $369.70 |