Culture mycoplasma any source at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$13.11
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$36.00
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$7.92 with Blue Shield CA vs $53.56 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $7.92 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $8.28 | ↓ -37% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.08 | ↓ -23% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $15.39 | ↑ +17% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $15.48 | ↑ +18% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $16.93 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $18.47 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $18.47 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.47 | ↑ +41% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $19.62 | ↑ +50% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.13 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.13 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $24.14 | ↑ +84% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $24.14 | ↑ +84% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $24.48 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $27.72 | ↑ +111% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $29.52 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $32.40 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $36.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $36.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $48.17 | ↑ +267% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $53.56 | ↑ +309% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Culture mycoplasma any source at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $7.34 | $4.53 – $40.82 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $7.25 | $3.08 – $22.57 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $108.27 | $15.08 – $125.58 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $16.53 | $15.39 – $39.64 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $23.98 | $15.39 – $35.28 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $15.14 | $9.72 – $46.60 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $14.33 | $12.00 – $44.21 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $14.17 | $12.00 – $44.21 |