Adj gastric band via subq port at Sequoia Hospital

170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

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Cash price

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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.

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Gross charge

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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.

$1,374.93 with Humana vs $8,859.00 with Health Net — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Humana Commercial|All Plans $1,374.93
Humana Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
United Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Health Net Commercial|Canopy Health $1,374.93
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Chinese Community Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Health Plan San Mateo Medicare|All Plans $1,374.93
Brown Toland Commercial|All Plans $1,512.42
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $3,729.00
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $4,170.00
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $4,296.00
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $4,303.53
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $5,565.00
Health Net Commercial|Care Product $7,643.00
Health Net Commercial|FFS $8,859.00
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|> 21 not published by hospital
Connected Care Commercial|Intel not published by hospital
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|< 21 not published by hospital
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans not published by hospital

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Adj gastric band via subq port at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange Orange $3,113.28 $991.55 – $4,971.00
Mercy San Juan Medical Center Carmichael $1,894.71 $196.79 – $1,540.06
Mercy General Hospital Sacramento $1,507.47 $626.15 – $1,789.00
Mercy Hospital of Folsom Folsom $2,689.94 $196.79 – $1,789.00
Woodland Memorial Hospital Woodland $1,894.71 $196.79 – $1,789.00
Methodist Hospital of Sacramento Sacramento $1,991.52 $626.15 – $1,484.87
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo not published $1,191.26 – $2,072.04
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma not published $1,222.26 – $4,657.00

All California hospitals for this procedure →