Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$57.62
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.
$157.00
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.
$0.83 with BCBS - Anthem vs $43.74 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 | Medicaid|All Plans | $0.83 | ↓ -99% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $0.87 | ↓ -98% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $0.87 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.02 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1.04 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1.04 | ↓ -98% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1.12 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $1.49 | ↓ -97% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $2.02 | ↓ -96% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $2.96 | ↓ -95% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $3.02 | ↓ -95% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $6.94 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7.98 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.56 | ↓ -83% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $17.63 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.50 | ↓ -64% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $21.60 | ↓ -63% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.14 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $22.14 | ↓ -62% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -53% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $27.54 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $27.69 | ↓ -52% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $37.80 | ↓ -34% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $41.04 | ↓ -29% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $42.66 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $43.74 | ↓ -24% |
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Sodium chloride 0.9 % IV bolus at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $58.25 | $0.62 – $43.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $57.38 | $0.93 – $19.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $65.33 | $1.24 – $11.04 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $0.93 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $0.62 – $52.92 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $65.33 | $1.24 – $11.95 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $65.33 | $1.33 – $14.26 |
| Healdsburg Hospital | Healdsburg | $65.33 | $1.26 – $28.15 |