Fluoroscopy up to 1 hour at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$687.96
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.
$1,890.00
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.
$40.11 with Kaiser vs $1,461.60 with Cigna — 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 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $40.11 | ↓ -94% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $49.33 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $49.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $49.34 | ↓ -93% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $53.81 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $382.23 | ↓ -44% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $389.93 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $435.63 | ↓ -37% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $517.79 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $517.79 | ↓ -25% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $517.79 | ↓ -25% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $700.47 | ↑ +2% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $738.30 | ↑ +7% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,107.72 | ↑ +61% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,109.52 | ↑ +61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,254.33 | ↑ +82% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,335.78 | ↑ +94% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,461.60 | ↑ +112% |
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Fluoroscopy up to 1 hour at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $895.28 | $60.69 – $1,594.32 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $556.29 | $46.13 – $822.56 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,474.41 | $265.72 – $372.86 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $926.62 | $40.11 – $1,698.34 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $965.04 | $4.40 – $17.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $738.53 | $40.11 – $1,271.67 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $165.84 | $40.11 – $1,206.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $164.05 | $40.11 – $1,206.45 |