Warde cadmium blood at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
420 34th St., Bakersfield, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1467538520
$4.75
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.
$12.94
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.
$6.47 with Western Growers vs $67.95 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 | $6.47 | ↑ +36% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.42 | ↑ +77% |
| CHN Sun View | Commercial|All Plans | $8.42 | ↑ +77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|PremerTiered | $8.55 | ↑ +80% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $9.06 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Exchange | $9.45 | ↑ +99% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $9.84 | ↑ +107% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $10.23 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.00 | ↑ +132% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.65 | ↑ +145% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|GemCare | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|Non-GemCare | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Other Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Molina | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| HPN | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Kern Health System | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| LA Care | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Care 1st | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $12.94 | ↑ +172% |
| BrightHealth | Commercial|All Plans | $13.72 | ↑ +189% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|Burn | $14.24 | ↑ +200% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $17.60 | ↑ +271% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $67.95 | ↑ +1331% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $67.95 | ↑ +1331% |
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Warde cadmium blood at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4.81 | $6.47 – $67.95 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $5.06 | $3.12 – $62.74 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $8.14 | $4.73 – $33.94 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5.54 | $4.81 – $60.93 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $8.62 | $7.01 – $12.94 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5.08 | $2.60 – $71.62 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $7.39 | $1.30 – $10.36 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $10.07 | $5.00 – $9.61 |