Pet fdg brain metoblic eval sb at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$1,432.77
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.
$3,904.00
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.
$1,374.36 with BCBS - Anthem vs $3,904.00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,374.36 | ↓ -4% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $1,853.28 | ↑ +29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $1,921.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,921.00 | ↑ +34% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,952.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $2,038.61 | ↑ +42% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $2,038.61 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $2,520.46 | ↑ +76% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $2,537.60 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $2,576.64 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,732.80 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $2,849.92 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,967.04 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,084.16 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,318.40 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $3,330.77 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,330.77 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,330.77 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $3,330.77 | ↑ +132% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $3,904.00 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3,904.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $3,904.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Pet fdg brain metoblic eval sb at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,448.39 | $1,853.28 – $3,330.77 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,082.93 | $1,853.28 – $11,638.48 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,880.45 | $925.89 – $3,507.42 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,931.78 | $1,330.56 – $4,829.44 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $5,614.59 | $2,030.33 – $6,312.15 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,218.72 | $1,989.72 – $5,370.12 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,517.92 | $1,563.28 – $3,402.43 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $2,271.15 | $1,197.36 – $2,019.00 |