Sodium 24 hour urine at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$100.56
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.
$274.00
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.
$5.06 with Blue Shield CA vs $49.00 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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| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $5.06 | ↓ -95% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $5.36 | ↓ -95% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $5.57 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.07 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.20 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6.88 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $7.02 | ↓ -93% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $14.55 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $14.94 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $20.21 | ↓ -80% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $24.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $25.10 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $27.00 | ↓ -73% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $31.85 | ↓ -68% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $31.85 | ↓ -68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $32.34 | ↓ -68% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $34.30 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $35.77 | ↓ -64% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $37.24 | ↓ -63% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $38.71 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.65 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.10 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $49.00 | ↓ -51% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Sodium 24 hour urine at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $101.66 | $5.06 – $39.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $67.89 | $5.06 – $15.79 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $17.53 | $1.01 – $7.13 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $120.36 | $4.96 – $39.68 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $93.31 | $2.50 – $13.04 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $104.57 | $5.06 – $114.66 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $85.46 | $1.35 – $15.33 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $315.69 | $5.06 – $50.14 |