Platelet automated at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$85.88
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.
$234.00
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.
$3.77 with Molina vs $39.00 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 |
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| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.77 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $4.48 | ↓ -95% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4.75 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4.93 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $4.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.30 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.30 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.38 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.38 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.38 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $5.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6.09 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $9.09 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $12.29 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.87 | ↓ -85% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12.87 | ↓ -85% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $19.50 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $23.07 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $24.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $25.35 | ↓ -70% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $25.35 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $25.74 | ↓ -70% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27.30 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $28.47 | ↓ -67% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $29.64 | ↓ -65% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $30.81 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $33.15 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.10 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $39.00 | ↓ -55% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Platelet automated at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $86.82 | $3.77 – $31.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $115.20 | $4.48 – $13.98 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.34 | $0.90 – $7.76 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $110.67 | $4.39 – $36.55 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $132.68 | $3.58 – $11.76 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $75.93 | $3.77 – $89.18 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $121.52 | $3.24 – $13.56 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $212.67 | $4.48 – $46.19 |