Aminophylline 25 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$10.20
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.
$28.00
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.
$5.73 with BCBS - Anthem vs $28.00 with Aetna — 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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| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.73 | ↓ -44% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $6.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $6.16 | ↓ -40% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $7.00 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $8.53 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8.53 | ↓ -16% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $8.53 | ↓ -16% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9.72 | ↓ -5% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $10.34 | ↑ +1% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $12.04 | ↑ +18% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $14.42 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $14.42 | ↑ +41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.42 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $16.80 | ↑ +65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $19.04 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $21.56 | ↑ +111% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $22.96 | ↑ +125% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $26.10 | ↑ +156% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $28.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $28.00 | ↑ +175% |
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Aminophylline 25 mg/ml intravenous solution (wrapper) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $2.86 – $52.26 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $23.12 | $4.74 – $52.92 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $21.17 | $8.53 – $52.92 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $18.55 | $6.94 – $20.80 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $18.35 | $2.00 – $8.00 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $87.59 | $2.89 – $23.76 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $87.59 | $3.45 – $23.76 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $19.11 | $7.68 – $53.30 |