Mayo pregnenolone at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$10.65
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.
$29.00
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.
$14.50 with Western Growers vs $59.42 with Cigna — 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $14.50 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $18.85 | ↑ +77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $18.85 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $19.14 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $20.30 | ↑ +91% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $20.67 | ↑ +94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $21.17 | ↑ +99% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $21.91 | ↑ +106% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.04 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $22.74 | ↑ +114% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.91 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.65 | ↑ +131% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $24.80 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $24.80 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24.80 | ↑ +133% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.80 | ↑ +133% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.82 | ↑ +142% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.82 | ↑ +142% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.10 | ↑ +145% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.36 | ↑ +148% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $28.11 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $29.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $59.42 | ↑ +458% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $59.42 | ↑ +458% |
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Mayo pregnenolone at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $10.76 | $14.50 – $59.42 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $115.64 | $7.83 – $54.86 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.14 | $4.13 – $30.33 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $51.28 | $20.26 – $165.15 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $12.42 | $13.25 – $53.28 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $19.32 | $15.70 – $28.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $11.37 | $7.16 – $62.63 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $51.28 | $20.67 – $208.70 |