Nm imaging cardiac blood pooling planar single study at rest or stress at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$811.07
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.
$2,210.00
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.
$240.65 with LA Care vs $2,210.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $240.65 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $317.66 | ↓ -61% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $338.11 | ↓ -58% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $338.11 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $510.57 | ↓ -37% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $561.63 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $561.63 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $579.97 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $694.38 | ↓ -14% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $784.52 | ↓ -3% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $810.57 | ↓ -0% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $848.52 | ↑ +5% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $871.75 | ↑ +7% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,105.00 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $1,436.50 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,458.60 | ↑ +80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,460.82 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,547.00 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,679.60 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,697.82 | ↑ +109% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,745.90 | ↑ +115% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,976.45 | ↑ +144% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,976.45 | ↑ +144% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,210.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Nm imaging cardiac blood pooling planar single study at rest or stress at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $819.91 | $240.65 – $1,976.45 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $566.78 | $349.38 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,867.39 | $80.37 – $2,699.51 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,615.28 | $538.74 – $1,122.83 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $3,511.16 | $240.65 – $2,433.34 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,638.74 | $567.62 – $1,418.97 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $2,641.80 | $514.17 – $1,609.13 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $612.11 | $218.61 – $853.62 |