Infuse radioactive materials at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$221.67
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.
$604.00
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.
$193.70 with Partnership Health Plan vs $604.00 with United — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $193.70 | ↓ -13% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $255.68 | ↑ +15% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $272.15 | ↑ +23% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $272.15 | ↑ +23% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $302.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $334.14 | ↑ +51% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $367.55 | ↑ +66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $367.55 | ↑ +66% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $392.60 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $404.98 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $405.05 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $422.80 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $434.88 | ↑ +96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $435.55 | ↑ +96% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $454.43 | ↑ +105% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $459.04 | ↑ +107% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $466.82 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $470.76 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $477.16 | ↑ +115% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $585.88 | ↑ +164% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $585.88 | ↑ +164% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $604.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Infuse radioactive materials at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $224.09 | $193.70 – $19,249.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $200.61 | $123.66 – $659.96 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,977.36 | $193.51 – $733.04 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $172.58 | $70.14 – $334.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $351.75 | $193.70 – $314.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $311.33 – $530.38 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $393.45 – $547.63 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | not published | $446.17 – $496.07 |