Reticulocyte automated at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$119.28
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.
$325.00
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.
$3.99 with Blue Shield CA vs $81.90 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $3.99 | ↓ -97% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $4.23 | ↓ -96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $4.39 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $4.79 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.79 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $4.79 | ↓ -96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $4.79 | ↓ -96% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.99 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.09 | ↓ -96% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5.43 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $6.48 | ↓ -95% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $11.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.45 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $12.27 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $16.59 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20.65 | ↓ -83% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $22.23 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $42.47 | ↓ -64% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $45.50 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $49.36 | ↓ -59% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $59.15 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $59.15 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $60.06 | ↓ -50% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $63.70 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $66.65 | ↓ -44% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $69.16 | ↓ -42% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $71.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $81.90 | ↓ -31% |
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Reticulocyte automated at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $120.58 | $3.99 – $72.80 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $114.76 | $3.99 – $12.45 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $93.84 | $3.91 – $32.64 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $132.26 | $3.99 – $14.70 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $60.61 | $3.99 – $89.18 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $121.13 | $3.99 – $14.70 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $153.00 | $3.99 – $41.25 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $171.88 | $3.99 – $140.80 |