Theophylline therapeutic drug level at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$100.93
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.
$275.00
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.
$14.14 with Blue Shield CA vs $129.00 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 | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $14.14 | ↓ -86% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $14.99 | ↓ -85% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $15.55 | ↓ -85% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $16.97 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $16.97 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $16.97 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $16.97 | ↓ -83% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $17.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $17.66 | ↓ -83% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.03 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $19.23 | ↓ -81% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.99 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $40.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $40.63 | ↓ -60% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $43.45 | ↓ -57% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $58.78 | ↓ -42% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $64.50 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $72.96 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $78.51 | ↓ -22% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $83.85 | ↓ -17% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $83.85 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $85.14 | ↓ -16% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $90.30 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $94.17 | ↓ -7% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $98.04 | ↓ -3% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $101.91 | ↑ +1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $109.65 | ↑ +9% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $116.10 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $129.00 | ↑ +28% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Theophylline therapeutic drug level at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $113.16 | $14.14 – $103.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $127.90 | $14.14 – $227.76 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $15.65 | $2.83 – $24.25 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $202.02 | $14.14 – $41.16 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $121.22 | $14.14 – $178.36 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $185.03 | $11.34 – $42.83 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $535.50 | $14.14 – $145.99 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $231.54 | $14.14 – $165.55 |