Prostate biopsy, any mthd at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$99.40
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.
$270.82
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.
$135.41 with Western Growers vs $520.09 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $135.41 | ↑ +36% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $176.04 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $178.75 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $189.58 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $197.70 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $205.83 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $213.95 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $230.20 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $270.82 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $297.91 | ↑ +200% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $297.91 | ↑ +200% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $368.32 | ↑ +271% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $457.06 | ↑ +360% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $457.06 | ↑ +360% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $520.09 | ↑ +423% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $520.09 | ↑ +423% |
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Prostate biopsy, any mthd at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $100.48 | $135.41 – $520.09 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $192.85 | $71.94 – $564.79 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $136.12 | $52.88 – $204.37 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $154.64 | $27.09 – $216.66 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $79.63 | $56.88 – $270.82 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $139.48 | $162.50 – $297.91 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $196.75 | $241.87 – $361.00 |
| Sequoia Hospital | Redwood City | $249.63 | $294.89 – $1,651.17 |