Cefotaxime sodium injection at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$33.49
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.
$92.00
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.
$2.34 with Brown Toland vs $26.00 with Aetna — 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 | $2.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $5.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $5.72 | ↓ -83% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $6.50 | ↓ -81% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $9.49 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $9.97 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.97 | ↓ -70% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $9.97 | ↓ -70% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $11.18 | ↓ -67% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $11.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11.76 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $15.60 | ↓ -53% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $17.68 | ↓ -47% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $20.02 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $21.29 | ↓ -36% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $21.32 | ↓ -36% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $22.62 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $24.69 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $26.00 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $26.00 | ↓ -22% |
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Cefotaxime sodium injection at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $29.35 | $9.97 – $52.26 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $41.56 | $7.24 – $91.14 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $12.56 | $2.33 – $43.56 |
| Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center | Tarzana | $33.78 | $10.00 – $39.43 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $30.56 | $7.17 – $47.45 |
| Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center | Burbank | $33.04 | $10.00 – $39.51 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $38.32 | $5.46 – $47.45 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $38.47 | $4.16 – $40.14 |