Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$144.15
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.
$396.00
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.
$15.32 with BCBS - Anthem vs $26,402.00 with United — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $15.32 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $18.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $18.84 | ↓ -87% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $22.42 | ↓ -84% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $170.28 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $247.68 | ↑ +72% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $269.28 | ↑ +87% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $298.27 | ↑ +107% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $304.92 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $324.72 | ↑ +125% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $328.10 | ↑ +128% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $396.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $795.00 | ↑ +452% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $818.00 | ↑ +467% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $933.59 | ↑ +548% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,045.00 | ↑ +625% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,060.00 | ↑ +635% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $19,277.00 | ↑ +13273% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19,277.00 | ↑ +13273% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26,402.00 | ↑ +18216% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Demonstration/evaluation utilization aersol generator/nebulizer/metered dose inhaler/ippb device at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $192.72 | $21.22 – $480.66 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $110.10 | $26.68 – $220.19 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $477.36 | $148.11 – $301.12 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $151.09 | $11.58 – $746.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $306.36 | $15.32 – $90.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $138.38 | $11.58 – $1,149.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $87.93 | $15.32 – $237.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $86.98 | $15.32 – $12,607.00 |