Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$812.45
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.
$2,232.00
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.
$149.91 with Kaiser vs $13,534.00 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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| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $149.91 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $184.39 | ↓ -77% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $184.39 | ↓ -77% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $225.13 | ↓ -72% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $292.33 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $292.33 | ↓ -64% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $486.42 | ↓ -40% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $535.06 | ↓ -34% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $624.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $959.76 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,000.00 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,000.00 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,200.00 | ↑ +48% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,517.76 | ↑ +87% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,522.49 | ↑ +87% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $1,584.72 | ↑ +95% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,718.64 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,830.24 | ↑ +125% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,897.20 | ↑ +134% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,031.12 | ↑ +150% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,232.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $5,691.00 | ↑ +600% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $6,597.00 | ↑ +712% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $7,204.00 | ↑ +787% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $13,534.00 | ↑ +1566% |
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Chemo adm cns w/lmbr punct at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $425.74 | $108.73 – $834.88 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,228.79 | $149.91 – $11,311.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $453.55 | $149.91 – $667.38 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $984.32 | $149.91 – $9,050.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $322.77 | $149.91 – $843.90 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $310.12 | $149.91 – $796.37 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $428.91 | $424.83 – $1,333.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $271.07 | $97.02 – $1,266.00 |