Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$238.92
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.
$651.00
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.
$21.11 with LA Care vs $14,561.00 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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| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.11 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $22.44 | ↓ -91% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $29.66 | ↓ -88% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $29.66 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $50.88 | ↓ -79% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $68.82 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $163.78 | ↓ -31% |
| HPN | Commercial|All Plans | $180.16 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $180.16 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $222.74 | ↓ -7% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $325.50 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $408.41 | ↑ +71% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $416.64 | ↑ +74% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $423.15 | ↑ +77% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $455.70 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $474.67 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $494.76 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $514.29 | ↑ +115% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $585.90 | ↑ +145% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $640.89 | ↑ +168% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $651.00 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $2,072.00 | ↑ +767% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $11,631.00 | ↑ +4768% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $12,607.00 | ↑ +5177% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12,607.00 | ↑ +5177% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,561.00 | ↑ +5995% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $14,561.00 | ↑ +5995% |
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Treatment inhalation continuous aerosol medication acute airway obstruction 1st hour at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $241.53 | $21.11 – $572.88 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $217.69 | $29.24 – $497.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $207.16 | $21.11 – $746.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $235.77 | $21.11 – $232.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $183.85 | $21.11 – $1,149.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $602.41 | $105.50 – $844.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $409.84 | $17.00 – $1,143.08 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $150.16 | $23.12 – $189.14 |