Manual diff wbc count b-coat at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$64.60
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.
$176.00
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.
$5.07 with BCBS - Anthem vs $153.90 with Blue Shield CA — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.07 | ↓ -92% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $5.37 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $5.58 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.69 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.81 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $5.95 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.08 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.08 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.08 | ↓ -91% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.08 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6.90 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $14.00 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.59 | ↓ -77% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $18.94 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $19.19 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $20.65 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $39.47 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $45.87 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $61.93 | ↓ -4% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $85.50 | ↑ +32% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $111.15 | ↑ +72% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $111.15 | ↑ +72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $112.86 | ↑ +75% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $119.70 | ↑ +85% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $129.96 | ↑ +101% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $135.09 | ↑ +109% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $153.90 | ↑ +138% |
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Manual diff wbc count b-coat at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $65.30 | $5.07 – $136.80 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $101.07 | $5.07 – $141.60 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $52.63 | $4.31 – $146.78 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $98.37 | $5.07 – $179.54 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $199.84 | $5.07 – $108.24 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $17.27 | $4.05 – $52.29 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $13.74 | $4.05 – $50.40 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $24.51 | $4.05 – $51.66 |