Warde amino acids 6 or more quantitative each specimen at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$40.42
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.
$110.11
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.
$15.00 with Western Growers vs $48.50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $15.00 | ↓ -63% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $16.87 | ↓ -58% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $17.88 | ↓ -56% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $18.56 | ↓ -54% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $19.50 | ↓ -52% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $19.50 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $19.80 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $20.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $20.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $20.24 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $20.24 | ↓ -50% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $21.00 | ↓ -48% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.06 | ↓ -48% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.06 | ↓ -48% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $21.50 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $21.90 | ↓ -46% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $22.80 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $22.94 | ↓ -43% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $23.70 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $25.50 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $27.00 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $29.94 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $30.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $30.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $30.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $30.00 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $30.00 | ↓ -26% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $48.50 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $48.50 | ↑ +20% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Warde amino acids 6 or more quantitative each specimen at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $40.86 | $15.00 – $48.50 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $13.14 | $8.10 – $44.78 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $74.49 | $3.37 – $77.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $283.51 | $16.53 – $137.06 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $47.13 | $15.00 – $43.49 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $19.98 | $16.24 – $29.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $43.17 | $8.10 – $51.12 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $283.51 | $16.87 – $173.21 |