Icd crtp serena MRI at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$23,504.52
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.
$64,045.00
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.
$5,073.75 with BCBS - Anthem vs $18,874.35 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $5,073.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $5,073.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $5,073.75 | ↓ -78% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $6,697.35 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $6,697.35 | ↓ -72% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $8,118.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $8,118.00 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9,538.65 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9,741.60 | ↓ -59% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $10,147.50 | ↓ -57% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $10,350.45 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10,553.40 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,568.15 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,771.10 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $11,771.10 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $13,394.70 | ↓ -43% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,206.50 | ↓ -40% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,018.30 | ↓ -36% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15,018.30 | ↓ -36% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $15,424.20 | ↓ -34% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $16,033.05 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $16,236.00 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $18,874.35 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,874.35 | ↓ -20% |
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Icd crtp serena MRI at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $12,725.30 | $5,073.75 – $16,236.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $20,865.01 | $4,383.12 – $14,245.14 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $30,536.64 | $2,503.05 – $5,921.85 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $18,604.80 | not published |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $22,428.49 | $4,201.18 – $17,900.68 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $20,541.98 | $3,470.54 – $17,900.68 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $18,604.80 | not published |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $7,435.80 | not published |