Bone marrow imaging body at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$2,557.83
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.
$7,027.00
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.
$329.98 with Brown Toland vs $5,762.14 with Multiplan — 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 | $329.98 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -77% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $648.21 | ↓ -75% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -67% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.85 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,560.71 | ↓ -39% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,844.45 | ↓ -28% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,394.45 | ↓ -6% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,645.07 | ↑ +3% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $3,021.61 | ↑ +18% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $3,513.50 | ↑ +37% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $3,513.50 | ↑ +37% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $4,778.36 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $5,410.79 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $5,762.14 | ↑ +125% |
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Bone marrow imaging body at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $821.69 | $506.52 – $1,824.90 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $1,444.66 | $80.37 – $2,088.41 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $705.28 | $510.57 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $697.67 | $221.97 – $1,976.45 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $526.26 | $187.95 – $848.52 |
| Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta | Mt Shasta | $1,408.18 | $228.70 – $1,773.80 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $1,057.81 | $193.38 – $884.54 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $507.31 | $210.20 – $1,364.43 |