Interrog device eval heart at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$66.06
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$180.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$47.38 with BCBS - Anthem vs $14,561.00 with United — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↓ -28% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $52.12 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $52.12 | ↓ -21% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.20 | ↓ -12% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $64.44 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $76.82 | ↑ +16% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $81.77 | ↑ +24% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $81.77 | ↑ +24% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $90.00 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $117.00 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $126.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $131.40 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $136.80 | ↑ +107% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $140.26 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $142.20 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $145.80 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $153.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $180.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $180.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $180.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,123.00 | ↑ +4628% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,643.00 | ↑ +5415% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,362.00 | ↑ +6503% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11,631.00 | ↑ +17507% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14,561.00 | ↑ +21942% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,561.00 | ↑ +21942% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Interrog device eval heart at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $38.22 | $27.30 – $130.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $86.19 | $51.93 – $162.55 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $99.36 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $105.58 | $47.38 – $205.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $155.23 | $47.38 – $361.00 |
| St Jude Medical Center | Fullerton | $69.12 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $41.45 | $47.38 – $8,268.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $280.80 | $40.80 – $88.80 |