Inj for ext venography at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$275.99
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.
$752.00
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.
$273.90 with Western Growers vs $7,821.00 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $273.90 | ↓ -1% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $323.70 | ↑ +17% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $329.82 | ↑ +20% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $348.60 | ↑ +26% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $378.48 | ↑ +37% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $393.42 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $403.38 | ↑ +46% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $443.22 | ↑ +61% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $493.02 | ↑ +79% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $498.00 | ↑ +80% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +1292% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +1370% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,982.00 | ↑ +1705% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,793.00 | ↑ +1999% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,821.00 | ↑ +2734% |
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Inj for ext venography at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $184.76 | $273.90 – $498.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $197.98 | $122.04 – $452.00 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,861.10 | $1,687.00 – $10,997.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $148.95 | $191.40 – $405.68 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,150.19 | $195.58 – $740.88 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $138.38 | $93.96 – $348.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,601.00 | $2,747.00 – $8,621.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $6,501.99 | $2,699.00 – $21,319.00 |