Organic acids total quant ea spec at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$23.86
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.
$65.00
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.
$23.60 with United vs $67.82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $23.60 | ↓ -1% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $25.02 | ↑ +5% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.16 | ↑ +5% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.16 | ↑ +5% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $25.69 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $25.96 | ↑ +9% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $28.32 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $28.32 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $28.32 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.32 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.20 | ↑ +22% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $32.10 | ↑ +35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $32.50 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $42.25 | ↑ +77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $42.25 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $42.90 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $45.50 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $47.45 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $49.40 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $51.35 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.25 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58.50 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $61.91 | ↑ +159% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $65.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $65.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $65.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $65.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $67.82 | ↑ +184% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.82 | ↑ +184% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Organic acids total quant ea spec at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $24.12 | $23.60 – $67.82 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $28.47 | $17.55 – $62.62 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $98.28 | $4.72 – $49.47 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $63.62 | $23.60 – $63.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $43.29 | $23.60 – $63.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $58.27 | $17.55 – $71.48 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $37.12 | $6.50 – $52.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $19.11 | $13.65 – $63.45 |