Rheumatoid factor qualitative at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$89.92
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.
$245.00
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.
$6.14 with BCBS - Anthem vs $82.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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 | Medicare|All Other Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $6.14 | ↓ -93% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $6.51 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $6.75 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.08 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $7.23 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $7.37 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $7.37 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $7.37 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $7.37 | ↓ -92% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $8.35 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $9.53 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $17.42 | ↓ -81% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $17.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $17.64 | ↓ -80% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $23.57 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $29.24 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $31.46 | ↓ -65% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $41.00 | ↓ -54% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $53.30 | ↓ -41% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $53.30 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $54.12 | ↓ -40% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $57.40 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $59.35 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $62.32 | ↓ -31% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.78 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $68.97 | ↓ -23% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $73.80 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $82.00 | ↓ -9% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Rheumatoid factor qualitative at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $90.90 | $6.14 – $65.60 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3.29 | $2.03 – $16.29 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $44.59 | $1.23 – $67.90 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $14.26 | $6.02 – $45.61 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $14.34 | $6.14 – $32.83 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $91.91 | $6.14 – $135.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $13.14 | $6.14 – $32.83 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $14.26 | $6.14 – $57.65 |