Iron binding capacity at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$95.79
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.
$261.00
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.
$8.74 with BCBS - Anthem vs $104.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -91% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $9.26 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $9.61 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.88 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.49 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $11.60 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $11.89 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $23.81 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $25.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $32.21 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $36.09 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $38.84 | ↓ -59% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $52.00 | ↓ -46% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $67.60 | ↓ -29% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $67.60 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $68.64 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $72.64 | ↓ -24% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $72.80 | ↓ -24% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $79.04 | ↓ -17% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $82.16 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.43 | ↓ -12% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $93.60 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $104.00 | ↑ +9% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Iron binding capacity at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $96.84 | $8.74 – $83.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $100.74 | $8.74 – $27.27 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $16.90 | $1.75 – $16.49 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $217.77 | $8.57 – $55.84 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $168.64 | $2.34 – $22.52 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $154.45 | $1.27 – $26.47 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $186.66 | $8.74 – $70.56 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $100.47 | $8.74 – $80.02 |