Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe mycobacteria tuberculosis at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$398.26
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.
$1,094.10
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.
$41.68 with Kaiser vs $274.44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $41.68 | ↓ -90% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $45.85 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $47.82 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $50.02 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $50.02 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $50.02 | ↓ -87% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $58.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $58.82 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $60.38 | ↓ -85% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $63.13 | ↓ -84% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $76.85 | ↓ -81% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $118.01 | ↓ -70% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $130.46 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $145.09 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $152.53 | ↓ -62% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $186.62 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $211.32 | ↓ -47% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $225.05 | ↓ -43% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $247.00 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $274.44 | ↓ -31% |
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Infectious agent nucleic acid amplified probe mycobacteria tuberculosis at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $32.42 | $12.42 – $110.58 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $36.27 | $8.34 – $63.05 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $458.49 | $40.85 – $277.20 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $122.41 | $41.68 – $107.38 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $69.40 | $41.68 – $102.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $112.12 | $28.62 – $126.24 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $46.38 | $41.68 – $119.76 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $45.88 | $41.68 – $119.76 |