Hospital · CCN 050257

Good Samaritan Hospital

901 Olive Drive, Bakersfield, CA 93308 · Kern County
Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

7 admission types 5 outpatient services

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

2.95×

$11.8M billed against $4.0M paid across 292 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

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of adults in Kern County have medical debt in collections — state bars medical debt from credit reports; the credit-bureau panel cannot see it

7.7%

uninsured in the county · state 7.5%

$68K

median household income

5.8×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (6 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

36.0%

obesity in the countyⓘ

13.3%

diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)

6.2%

coronary heart disease (PLACES)

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median age · — below poverty (ACS)

01 · Admissions

What it billed Medicare, by admission type

Average charge submitted and average total payment per discharge, 2024. Rows under 11 discharges are suppressed by CMS. The last column is the hospital's ratio against its state's for the same admission.

DRG

Admission

Discharges

Charge

Paid

Billed ÷ paid

897

Alcohol, drug abuse or dependence without rehabilitation therapy without mcc

$21,076

$8,068

2.6× st 5.7×

071

Other cerebrovascular disorders with cc

$28,967

$9,924

2.9× st 6.1×

574

Skin graft for skin ulcer or cellulitis with cc

$75,591

$23,310

3.2× st 3.3×

070

Other cerebrovascular disorders with mcc

$35,708

$14,563

2.5× st 5.4×

573

Skin graft for skin ulcer or cellulitis with mcc

$102,629

$31,775

3.2× st 3.2×

603

Cellulitis without mcc

$27,008

$7,940

3.4× st 5.9×

602

Cellulitis with mcc

$31,625

$11,753

2.7× st 5.7×

02 · Outpatient

Outpatient services

Comprehensive APCs, Medicare's outpatient payment groups: submitted charge against what Medicare allowed, per service.

APC

Service

Services

Charge

Allowed

Billed ÷ allowed

8011

Comprehensive Observation Services

$9,308

$3,365

2.8×

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5154

Level 4 Airway Endoscopy

—

5341

Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures

—

5361

Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services

—

Sources for this hospital

the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them

Medicare Inpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
Medicare Outpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_OUT_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_Prov_Svc.csv · 28.1M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 f293918edbf6… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems — hospital linkage file · AHRQ · 2023
chsp-hospital-linkage-2023.csv · 1.5M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 a86146f10c8d… · publisher's page · public; cite AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems
2020 ZCTA to County relationship file · US Census Bureau · 2020
tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt · 6.8M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 3ed41278d637… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)

Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.

Source rows for this hospital as JSON: inpatient · outpatient. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.