Injection during cath supravalvular aortography at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$1,534.26
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.
$4,215.00
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.
$106.95 with BCBS - Anthem vs $14,570.00 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 |
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| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $106.95 | ↓ -93% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $131.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $131.55 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $145.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $145.40 | ↓ -91% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $147.86 | ↓ -90% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $1,812.45 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,866.20 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,245.55 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,456.30 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,596.00 | ↑ +460% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $11,838.00 | ↑ +672% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $14,570.00 | ↑ +850% |
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Injection during cath supravalvular aortography at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $73.59 | $45.36 – $203.32 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $197.74 | $106.95 – $452.76 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $184.64 | $106.95 – $461.58 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,594.99 | $106.95 – $4,302.54 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $2,831.52 | $2,747.00 – $6,200.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $138.72 | $2,699.00 – $8,018.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $705.60 | $93.20 – $2,016.00 |
| Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital | Santa Rosa | $830.79 | $1,716.00 – $4,042.00 |