Injection glatiramer acetate at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$647.92
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.
$1,780.00
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.
$75.00 with Blue Shield CA vs $1,459.60 with Multiplan — 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $75.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $75.00 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $75.00 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $90.03 | ↓ -86% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $135.75 | ↓ -79% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $152.72 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $157.50 | ↓ -76% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $224.54 | ↓ -65% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $235.21 | ↓ -64% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $258.73 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $283.09 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $283.09 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $283.09 | ↓ -56% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $391.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $391.60 | ↓ -40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $441.90 | ↓ -32% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $445.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $765.40 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,068.00 | ↑ +65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,210.40 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,370.60 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,459.60 | ↑ +125% |
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Injection glatiramer acetate at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $5,531.32 | $71.25 – $578.92 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $179.13 | $55.60 – $348.69 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $239.67 | $42.78 – $859.00 |
| Community Hospital San Bernardino | San Bernardino | $767.93 | $62.79 – $1,964.00 |
| St. Bernardine Medical Center | San Bernardino | $405.93 | $57.38 – $999.58 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $5,047.79 | $49.68 – $695.20 |
| Woodland Memorial Hospital | Woodland | $6,344.47 | $48.50 – $869.00 |
| Providence Holy Cross Medical Center | Mission Hills | $852.32 | $63.75 – $348.69 |