Injection for bladder x-ray at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$77.07
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.
$210.00
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.
$115.50 with Western Growers vs $14,699.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $115.50 | ↑ +50% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $136.50 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $147.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $159.60 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $165.90 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $170.10 | ↑ +121% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $186.90 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $207.90 | ↑ +170% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $210.00 | ↑ +172% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $294.79 | ↑ +282% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $4,982.00 | ↑ +6364% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,793.00 | ↑ +7417% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,821.00 | ↑ +10048% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $13,923.00 | ↑ +17965% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14,699.00 | ↑ +18972% |
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Injection for bladder x-ray at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $77.91 | $115.50 – $294.79 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $206.74 | $127.44 – $472.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $277.70 | $218.12 – $516.04 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $563.55 | $264.55 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $730.17 | $196.90 – $362.59 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,037.63 | $31.31 – $294.79 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $622.11 | $96.66 – $358.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $425.34 | $340.18 – $6,200.00 |