Interrog evl pm/ldls pm ip at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$36.70
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.
$100.00
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.
$38.02 with LA Care vs $14,561.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $38.02 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $47.38 | ↑ +29% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $50.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $50.19 | ↑ +37% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $52.12 | ↑ +42% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $52.12 | ↑ +42% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $53.42 | ↑ +46% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $53.42 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $64.44 | ↑ +76% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $65.00 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $70.00 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $73.00 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $76.00 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $79.00 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $81.00 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $85.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $91.63 | ↑ +150% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $100.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $100.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $100.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,123.00 | ↑ +8410% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $3,643.00 | ↑ +9826% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,362.00 | ↑ +11786% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11,631.00 | ↑ +31592% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,561.00 | ↑ +39576% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14,561.00 | ↑ +39576% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Interrog evl pm/ldls pm ip at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $49.72 | $38.02 – $109.88 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $49.94 | $30.78 – $88.92 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $175.95 | $48.00 – $1,333.00 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $121.38 | $42.18 – $71.48 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $32.64 | $23.31 – $93.91 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $86.19 | $51.93 – $134.42 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $56.64 | $40.80 – $88.80 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $57.17 | $38.02 – $111.00 |