Lidocaine therapeutic drug level at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$131.76
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.
$359.00
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.
$14.69 with Blue Shield CA vs $99.00 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 |
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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $14.69 | ↓ -89% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $15.57 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $16.16 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $17.63 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.63 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.63 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $17.63 | ↓ -87% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.35 | ↓ -86% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.35 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.73 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $19.98 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.08 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $42.22 | ↓ -68% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $42.22 | ↓ -68% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $45.14 | ↓ -66% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $49.50 | ↓ -62% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $61.06 | ↓ -54% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $64.35 | ↓ -51% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $64.35 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $65.34 | ↓ -50% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $69.30 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $72.27 | ↓ -45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $75.24 | ↓ -43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $75.76 | ↓ -43% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $78.21 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $81.52 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $84.15 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.10 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $99.00 | ↓ -25% |
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Lidocaine therapeutic drug level at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $133.19 | $14.69 – $79.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $43.37 | $14.69 – $77.22 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.51 | $2.94 – $21.55 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $50.97 | $14.40 – $119.86 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $42.38 | $14.69 – $97.02 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $65.94 | $14.69 – $97.02 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $38.81 | $14.69 – $97.02 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $50.97 | $14.69 – $151.47 |