Prealbumin at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$47.35
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.
$129.00
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.
$14.59 with Blue Shield CA vs $41.91 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 |
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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -69% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $15.47 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $16.05 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $17.51 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.51 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $17.51 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $17.51 | ↓ -63% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.52 | ↓ -63% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.52 | ↓ -63% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.89 | ↓ -62% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $18.24 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $19.84 | ↓ -58% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $23.72 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $23.72 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $24.08 | ↓ -49% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $25.54 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $25.78 | ↓ -46% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $26.64 | ↓ -44% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $27.73 | ↓ -41% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $28.82 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.01 | ↓ -35% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32.84 | ↓ -31% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $36.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $36.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $36.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $36.48 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $36.48 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $41.91 | ↓ -11% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.91 | ↓ -11% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Prealbumin at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $47.86 | $14.59 – $41.91 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $72.71 | $14.59 – $45.53 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $5.63 | $2.92 – $20.58 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $195.33 | $14.30 – $119.42 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $98.44 | $4.50 – $37.58 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $24.30 | $14.59 – $35.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $90.16 | $2.43 – $44.18 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $281.01 | $14.59 – $150.92 |