Renal venogram bil s&i at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$2,844.62
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.
$7,751.00
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.
$536.07 with BCBS - Anthem vs $15,009.21 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $536.07 | ↓ -81% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $679.89 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $731.21 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $3,828.75 | ↑ +35% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $3,875.50 | ↑ +36% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $3,999.21 | ↑ +41% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $4,399.13 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4,399.13 | ↑ +55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,449.92 | ↑ +56% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $5,038.15 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $5,115.66 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $5,425.70 | ↑ +91% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,438.93 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $5,890.76 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $6,008.20 | ↑ +111% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,123.29 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,438.74 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +126% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +126% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,009.21 | ↑ +428% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $15,009.21 | ↑ +428% |
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Renal venogram bil s&i at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,450.30 | $705.08 – $15,009.21 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $2,581.58 | $548.55 – $13,858.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,143.71 | $1,040.99 – $13,457.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,711.06 | $901.42 – $15,820.61 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $4,889.88 | $4,061.05 – $4,434.05 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,824.57 | $529.82 – $6,206.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,565.12 | $970.17 – $7,512.94 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,148.33 | $467.03 – $7,571.70 |