Virus isolation addl studies ea at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$48.82
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.
$133.00
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.
$16.50 with Western Growers vs $58.05 with Cigna — 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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| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $16.50 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -59% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $21.41 | ↓ -56% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $21.45 | ↓ -56% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $21.45 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $21.78 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $22.22 | ↓ -54% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.48 | ↓ -54% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.48 | ↓ -54% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $22.95 | ↓ -53% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $23.10 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $24.09 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $24.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $24.24 | ↓ -50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $24.58 | ↓ -50% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $25.08 | ↓ -49% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $26.07 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $27.47 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28.05 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $29.70 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $33.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $33.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $33.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $33.00 | ↓ -32% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $33.00 | ↓ -32% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $58.05 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $58.05 | ↑ +19% |
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Virus isolation addl studies ea at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $49.35 | $16.50 – $58.05 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $14.46 | $8.91 – $53.60 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $14.13 | $16.50 – $52.05 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $21.98 | $17.87 – $32.34 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $12.94 | $8.91 – $61.19 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $75.95 | $3.30 – $26.40 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $39.11 | $6.93 – $33.00 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $25.68 | $16.00 – $32.34 |