Complement fixation each at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$16.02
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.
$44.00
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.
$9.68 with Blue Shield CA vs $44.00 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.
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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $9.68 | ↓ -40% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.01 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $10.12 | ↓ -37% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $11.01 | ↓ -31% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.01 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.01 | ↓ -25% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.32 | ↓ -23% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.77 | ↓ -20% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.70 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.70 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.71 | ↓ -2% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.71 | ↓ -2% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $18.92 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $29.92 | ↑ +87% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $31.33 | ↑ +96% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $33.88 | ↑ +111% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $34.87 | ↑ +118% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $36.08 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.60 | ↑ +147% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $43.57 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $44.00 | ↑ +175% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Complement fixation each at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $19.28 | $10.01 – $34.32 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $4.59 | $9.81 – $81.78 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $22.69 | $10.01 – $51.94 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $27.98 | $10.01 – $41.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $20.78 | $10.01 – $51.94 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $19.67 | $8.13 – $28.78 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $19.46 | $8.13 – $28.78 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $4.59 | $10.01 – $103.34 |