Artery x-rays lung at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$1,923.74
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.
$5,285.00
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.
$176.10 with Partnership Health Plan vs $18,183.51 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $176.10 | ↓ -91% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $176.75 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $216.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $216.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $216.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $216.60 | ↓ -89% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $925.52 | ↓ -52% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $2,272.55 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,593.80 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,069.45 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,333.70 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +140% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,756.50 | ↑ +147% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $5,077.39 | ↑ +164% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,285.00 | ↑ +175% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $5,285.00 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5,285.00 | ↑ +175% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5,285.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,447.49 | ↑ +651% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $18,183.51 | ↑ +845% |
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Artery x-rays lung at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,672.73 | $266.42 – $13,858.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5,143.71 | $176.10 – $13,457.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $4,711.06 | $176.10 – $15,820.61 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,223.93 | $176.10 – $15,009.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,210.74 | $176.10 – $15,009.21 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,944.23 | $176.10 – $6,313.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $4,627.23 | $1,173.40 – $4,393.52 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $3,535.68 | $956.57 – $7,512.94 |