Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$1,789.50
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.
$4,876.00
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.
$0.55 with BCBS - Anthem vs $39.00 with Health Net — 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 | Commercial|Exchange | $0.55 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $0.64 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $0.87 | ↓ -100% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $9.99 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $10.99 | ↓ -99% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $10.99 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.51 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.80 | ↓ -99% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $13.59 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14.69 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $14.69 | ↓ -99% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $15.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15.99 | ↓ -99% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $19.50 | ↓ -99% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.60 | ↓ -99% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $26.19 | ↓ -99% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $26.19 | ↓ -99% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.30 | ↓ -98% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $29.64 | ↓ -98% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $30.81 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $31.59 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $39.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $39.00 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $39.00 | ↓ -98% |
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Methylene blue (antidote) 5 mg/ml intravenous solution at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,809.00 | $1.31 – $39.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,245.00 | $0.37 – $11.70 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $962.69 | $0.35 – $16.30 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $3,230.98 | $0.61 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $2,959.21 | $2.29 – $52.92 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $962.69 | $0.37 – $16.30 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $962.69 | $0.45 – $16.30 |
| Redwood Memorial Hospital | Fortuna | $962.69 | $0.45 – $0.45 |