Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level at Sequoia Hospital

170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 10, 2026

$448.09

Cash price

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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.

$1,231.00

Gross charge

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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.

$14.08 with Blue Shield CA vs $64.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $14.08 ↓ -97%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Chinese Community Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
United Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Health Net Commercial|Canopy Health $14.57 ↓ -97%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $14.57 ↓ -97%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $14.72 ↓ -97%
Brown Toland Commercial|All Plans $16.03 ↓ -96%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $17.48 ↓ -96%
United Commercial|HMO $17.48 ↓ -96%
United Commercial|Options PPO $17.48 ↓ -96%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $17.92 ↓ -96%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|< 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|> 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|< 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|> 21 $18.09 ↓ -96%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|< 21 $22.25 ↓ -95%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|> 21 $22.25 ↓ -95%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $22.25 ↓ -95%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $22.25 ↓ -95%
Connected Care Commercial|Intel $27.52 ↓ -94%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $43.52 ↓ -90%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $45.60 ↓ -90%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $49.28 ↓ -89%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $50.72 ↓ -89%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $52.48 ↓ -88%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $57.60 ↓ -87%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $63.29 ↓ -86%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $64.00 ↓ -86%

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Carbamazepine total therapeutic drug level at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $208.49 $3.20 – $38.66
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $27.54 $2.91 – $42.68
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $392.19 $14.28 – $118.87
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $349.68 $5.91 – $37.54
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $148.52 $6.40 – $11.82
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $320.27 $3.19 – $44.13
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $268.98 $14.57 – $105.60
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $266.08 $14.57 – $104.28

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