Tocilizumab for covid-19 at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$4,041.78
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.
$11,013.00
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.
$100.00 with Health Net vs $2,203.00 with United — 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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| Health Net | Commercial|Exchange | $100.00 | ↓ -98% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $550.75 | ↓ -86% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $881.20 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $903.23 | ↓ -78% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $903.23 | ↓ -78% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,101.50 | ↓ -73% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $1,123.53 | ↓ -72% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,542.10 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,674.28 | ↓ -59% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,740.37 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $1,784.43 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $1,806.46 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,092.85 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,180.97 | ↓ -46% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,203.00 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,203.00 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,203.00 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,203.00 | ↓ -45% |
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Tocilizumab for covid-19 at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4,085.83 | $100.00 – $1,762.40 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $9,573.08 | $2,490.30 – $5,423.32 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $8,767.87 | $1,494.18 – $5,423.32 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $2,643.95 | $100.00 – $1,511.16 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $4,017.00 | $539.75 – $2,137.41 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $3,600.00 | $1,283.89 – $4,028.76 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $1,435.46 | $100.00 – $5,145.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $5,278.33 | $4,745.65 – $9,491.30 |