Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution 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.
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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.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$22.90 with Kaiser vs $107.73 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $22.90 | ↓ -65% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $25.19 | ↓ -62% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $25.19 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $26.12 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $28.34 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.43 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $28.52 | ↓ -57% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.52 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $28.71 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $28.71 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $28.86 | ↓ -56% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $30.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $30.47 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $31.14 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $33.33 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $34.68 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $38.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.61 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $52.27 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $52.34 | ↓ -21% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $53.20 | ↓ -19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $54.53 | ↓ -17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $54.53 | ↓ -17% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $66.50 | ↑ +1% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $70.71 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $82.19 | ↑ +24% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $84.03 | ↑ +27% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $93.10 | ↑ +41% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $101.08 | ↑ +53% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $105.07 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $107.73 | ↑ +63% |
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Iron dextran 50 mg/ml injection solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $66.78 | $11.29 – $106.40 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $59.13 | $15.34 – $44.31 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $148.18 | $20.25 – $370.44 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $84.15 | $18.10 – $37.04 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $84.15 | $18.10 – $37.04 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $52.91 | $15.39 – $37.04 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $245.07 | $21.69 – $229.32 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $90.64 | $18.86 – $123.14 |