Chloride 24 hour urine 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

$216.22

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.

$594.00

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.

$5.75 with Health Net vs $186.96 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.

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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
Health Net Commercial|Canopy Health $5.75 ↓ -97%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Chinese Community Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Blue Shield CA Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
BCBS - Anthem Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
United Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Humana Commercial|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Health Net Medicare|All Plans $5.75 ↓ -97%
Kaiser Medicaid|> 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
Kaiser Medicaid|< 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|< 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
BCBS - Anthem Medicaid|> 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|< 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
Partnership Health Plan Medicaid|> 21 $6.30 ↓ -97%
Brown Toland Commercial|All Plans $6.33 ↓ -97%
United Commercial|HMO $6.90 ↓ -97%
United Commercial|Options PPO $6.90 ↓ -97%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $6.90 ↓ -97%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|> 21 $7.75 ↓ -96%
Health Net Medicaid|< 21 $7.75 ↓ -96%
Health Net Medicaid|> 21 $7.75 ↓ -96%
Health Plan San Mateo Medicaid|< 21 $7.75 ↓ -96%
Sutter Health Commercial|All Plans $18.00 ↓ -92%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $20.03 ↓ -91%
Aetna Commercial|All Plans $21.83 ↓ -90%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|ACO Trio $50.16 ↓ -77%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|Exchange $52.44 ↓ -76%
Blue Shield CA Commercial|All Other Plans $63.84 ↓ -70%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|All Other Plans $67.21 ↓ -69%
Connected Care Commercial|Intel $98.04 ↓ -55%
BCBS - Anthem Commercial|MCS $113.91 ↓ -47%
Healthsmart Commercial|All Plans $155.04 ↓ -28%
Kaiser Commercial|All Plans $175.56 ↓ -19%
Multiplan Commercial|All Plans $186.96 ↓ -14%

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Chloride 24 hour urine at other California hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
St. John's Camarillo Hospital Camarillo $45.12 $5.75 – $17.94
Banner Lassen Medical Center Susanville $4.38 $1.15 – $7.24
Petaluma Valley Hospital Petaluma $5.49 $5.64 – $41.00
Arroyo Grande Hospital Santa Maria $102.30 $2.50 – $14.83
Mark Twain Medical Center San Andreas $263.74 $4.46 – $8.07
French Hospital San Luis Obispo $93.69 $1.35 – $17.43
Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield Bakersfield $156.57 $5.75 – $34.40
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Bakersfield $154.88 $5.75 – $33.97

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