Tomosynthesis breast diagnostic left at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$146.80
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.
$400.00
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.
$47.52 with LA Care vs $8,109.00 with Blue Shield CA — 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 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.52 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $57.31 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $57.31 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $57.31 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $57.31 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $62.73 | ↓ -57% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $66.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $66.77 | ↓ -55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $114.06 | ↓ -22% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $114.06 | ↓ -22% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $114.52 | ↓ -22% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $154.92 | ↑ +6% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $182.50 | ↑ +24% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $237.25 | ↑ +62% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $240.90 | ↑ +64% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $255.50 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $266.45 | ↑ +82% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $277.40 | ↑ +89% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $288.35 | ↑ +96% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $310.25 | ↑ +111% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $365.00 | ↑ +149% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $3,891.00 | ↑ +2551% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,109.00 | ↑ +5424% |
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Tomosynthesis breast diagnostic left at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $148.40 | $47.52 – $292.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $47.91 | $23.78 – $78.41 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $55.59 | $13.63 – $2,570.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $185.33 | $47.52 – $404.74 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $58.61 | $22.77 – $86.24 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $69.39 | $42.66 – $154.84 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $76.50 | $13.91 – $7,483.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $91.29 | $13.91 – $7,809.00 |