Macroscopic exam parasite at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$6.43
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.
$17.64
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.
$3.80 with Partnership Health Plan vs $17.64 with Aetna — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $3.80 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $3.89 | ↓ -40% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $4.06 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $4.31 | ↓ -33% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $4.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $4.67 | ↓ -27% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $4.74 | ↓ -26% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4.94 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5.17 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $5.17 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $5.17 | ↓ -20% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $7.59 | ↑ +18% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $12.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $13.49 | ↑ +110% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $13.59 | ↑ +111% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.47 | ↑ +125% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $15.00 | ↑ +133% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.88 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $17.64 | ↑ +174% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $17.64 | ↑ +174% |
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Macroscopic exam parasite at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $18.40 | $4.31 – $13.76 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $2.23 | $0.86 – $6.27 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $19.69 | $3.44 – $12.74 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $40.63 | $3.80 – $17.29 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $18.04 | $3.44 – $13.05 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $6.55 | $3.80 – $14.12 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $6.48 | $3.80 – $13.94 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $48.54 | $1.77 – $14.12 |