Blood typing patient serum at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$34.40
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.
$94.50
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.
$9.81 with Kaiser vs $272.65 with Sutter Health — 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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| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.81 | ↓ -71% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.07 | ↓ -65% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.07 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $19.61 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $19.61 | ↓ -43% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19.61 | ↓ -43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $20.79 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $21.74 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.46 | ↓ -23% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $40.64 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $41.34 | ↑ +20% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $56.88 | ↑ +65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $64.26 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $72.77 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.49 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $85.05 | ↑ +147% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $87.11 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $94.50 | ↑ +175% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $95.82 | ↑ +179% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $272.65 | ↑ +693% |
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Blood typing patient serum at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $71.28 | $3.27 – $99.91 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $35.30 | $9.81 – $51.94 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $15.59 | $9.81 – $53.00 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital | Grass Valley | $28.89 | $9.37 – $53.00 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $21.18 | $23.18 – $140.37 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $38.70 | $6.84 – $88.00 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $96.25 | $19.94 – $140.37 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $35.19 | $9.81 – $107.25 |