Artery x-rays lungs at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$3,204.30
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.
$8,803.00
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.
$191.83 with Brown Toland 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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| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $191.83 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $192.98 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $237.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $237.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $237.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $237.37 | ↓ -93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $897.31 | ↓ -72% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $3,785.29 | ↑ +18% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4,615.81 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,824.67 | ↑ +51% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $5,077.39 | ↑ +58% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $5,986.04 | ↑ +87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $6,438.74 | ↑ +101% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,438.74 | ↑ +101% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,778.31 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,218.46 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $8,176.78 | ↑ +155% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $14,447.49 | ↑ +351% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $18,183.51 | ↑ +467% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Artery x-rays lungs at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $3,559.19 | $291.97 – $13,858.31 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $7,790.03 | $192.98 – $13,457.70 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $6,471.14 | $192.98 – $15,820.61 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $3,101.19 | $192.98 – $15,009.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $3,067.76 | $192.98 – $15,009.21 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4,628.76 | $1,314.85 – $4,434.05 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $11,443.38 | $4,061.05 – $4,434.05 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,767.53 | $192.98 – $4,028.00 |