Thyroid Ultrasound at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$438.20
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.
$1,194.00
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.
$85.69 with LA Care vs $943.26 with MultiPlan — 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $85.69 | ↓ -80% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $113.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $120.39 | ↓ -73% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $120.39 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $135.12 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $148.63 | ↓ -66% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $148.63 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $183.76 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $206.51 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $245.18 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $245.18 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $245.18 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $245.18 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $279.35 | ↓ -36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $364.10 | ↓ -17% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $391.58 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $432.36 | ↓ -1% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $502.51 | ↑ +15% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $570.84 | ↑ +30% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $570.84 | ↑ +30% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $597.00 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $678.47 | ↑ +55% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $776.10 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $788.04 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $835.80 | ↑ +91% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $907.44 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $943.26 | ↑ +115% |
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Thyroid Ultrasound at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $442.98 | $85.69 – $955.20 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $840.96 | $129.64 – $1,497.60 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $826.60 | $21.27 – $1,021.41 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $2,255.73 | $140.89 – $332.32 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $740.02 | $85.69 – $1,406.30 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,779.56 | $85.69 – $752.64 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $589.96 | $85.69 – $601.70 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,163.93 | $148.44 – $419.98 |