Measure kidney pressure at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$330.67
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.
$901.00
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.
$52.54 with Partnership Health Plan vs $6,060.00 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $52.54 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.70 | ↓ -74% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $116.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $116.39 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $199.64 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $270.06 | ↓ -18% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $495.55 | ↑ +50% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $585.65 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $630.70 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $684.76 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $711.79 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $729.81 | ↑ +121% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $848.09 | ↑ +156% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $891.99 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $901.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $901.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $901.00 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $932.90 | ↑ +182% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $932.90 | ↑ +182% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,153.40 | ↑ +249% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,907.00 | ↑ +779% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,562.00 | ↑ +977% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $3,753.00 | ↑ +1035% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,842.00 | ↑ +1062% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $4,056.00 | ↑ +1127% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,142.00 | ↑ +1153% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $4,377.00 | ↑ +1224% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,242.00 | ↑ +1485% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,592.00 | ↑ +1591% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,060.00 | ↑ +1733% |
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Measure kidney pressure at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $334.28 | $52.54 – $848.09 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $359.10 | $52.54 – $839.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $328.89 | $52.54 – $839.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,179.83 | $52.54 – $1,636.32 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $471.74 | $52.54 – $434.50 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $331.45 | $896.84 – $2,594.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $1,175.30 | $896.84 – $2,581.00 |
| Providence Little Co of Mary Med Center San Pedro | San Pedro | $497.00 | $896.84 – $5,100.00 |