Revision tips at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$14,458.70
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.
$39,397.00
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.
$249.81 with LA Care vs $39,397.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $249.81 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $329.75 | ↓ -98% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $350.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $350.98 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $602.04 | ↓ -96% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $814.38 | ↓ -94% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2,907.00 | ↓ -80% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,060.00 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $7,244.35 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $7,830.00 | ↓ -46% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $7,968.78 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $7,968.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $9,133.00 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $9,590.00 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $9,852.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,937.00 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,151.00 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $15,054.00 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $20,404.00 | ↑ +41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $21,541.00 | ↑ +49% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $21,668.35 | ↑ +50% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $25,608.05 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $27,577.90 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $29,941.72 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $31,123.63 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $31,911.57 | ↑ +121% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $39,003.03 | ↑ +170% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $39,397.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39,397.00 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $39,397.00 | ↑ +172% |
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Revision tips at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $14,616.29 | $249.81 – $31,517.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $7,078.52 | $377.94 – $13,090.66 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $41,050.34 | $249.81 – $25,078.20 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $38,254.89 | $249.81 – $25,078.20 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $4,848.65 | $249.81 – $13,853.28 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $20,368.89 | $2,238.00 – $20,488.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $8,331.84 | $5,171.00 – $14,208.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $19,754.37 | $249.81 – $37,974.42 |