Echo transthoracic at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$1,921.20
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.
$5,278.00
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.
$175.17 with Kaiser vs $24,323.00 with United — 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 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $175.17 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $215.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $215.46 | ↓ -89% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $303.01 | ↓ -84% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $341.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $341.59 | ↓ -82% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $804.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $884.49 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,639.19 | ↓ -15% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $2,269.54 | ↑ +18% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,516.77 | ↑ +31% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2,778.07 | ↑ +45% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $3,589.04 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $4,064.06 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,327.96 | ↑ +125% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,595.00 | ↑ +243% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7,645.00 | ↑ +298% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18,445.00 | ↑ +860% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $18,445.00 | ↑ +860% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $24,323.00 | ↑ +1166% |
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Echo transthoracic at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,510.84 | $175.17 – $3,459.40 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,383.76 | $175.17 – $3,459.40 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $650.00 | $175.17 – $1,401.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,970.43 | $175.17 – $1,384.08 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $1,685.55 | $775.83 – $3,331.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,167.39 | $702.78 – $3,331.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $1,433.25 | $175.17 – $3,997.50 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,294.56 | $597.36 – $1,300.14 |