Aortic dysfunction/dilation at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$408.14
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.
$1,121.25
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.
$482.14 with Connected Care vs $4,700.53 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 |
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| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $482.14 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $762.45 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $863.37 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $919.43 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,009.13 | ↑ +147% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,121.25 | ↑ +175% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $1,233.38 | ↑ +202% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $3,509.52 | ↑ +760% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,700.53 | ↑ +1052% |
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Aortic dysfunction/dilation at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $479.90 | $560.63 – $3,478.89 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $746.76 | $606.94 – $1,121.25 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $439.53 | $302.74 – $4,089.71 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $872.34 | $583.05 – $1,121.25 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $568.48 | $852.15 – $1,121.25 |
| St. Elizabeth Community Hospital | Red Bluff | $654.81 | $549.42 – $1,121.25 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | not published | $1,323.19 – $16,829.15 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | not published | $1,350.19 – $21,267.87 |