Membrane collgn porcine maci w/autologous cult chondrocytes at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$85,304.50
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.
$234,353.00
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.
$51,557.66 with Health Plan San Mateo vs $234,353.00 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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| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $51,557.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $51,557.66 | ↓ -40% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $58,588.25 | ↓ -31% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $78,986.40 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $78,986.40 | ↓ -7% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $78,986.40 | ↓ -7% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $100,771.79 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $120,116.70 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $120,116.70 | ↑ +41% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $120,116.70 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $140,611.80 | ↑ +65% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $142,965.38 | ↑ +68% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $149,037.39 | ↑ +75% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $159,360.04 | ↑ +87% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $165,871.44 | ↑ +94% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $180,451.81 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $192,169.46 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $234,353.00 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $234,353.00 | ↑ +175% |
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Membrane collgn porcine maci w/autologous cult chondrocytes at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $74,569.15 | $38,582.94 – $160,796.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $73,765.17 | $50,248.75 – $200,995.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $35,455.52 | $31,355.22 – $221,691.13 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $39,334.16 | $19,094.25 – $76,377.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $131,891.85 | $79,081.20 – $293,093.00 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $84,468.72 | $33,910.80 – $255,872.40 |
| Mercy General Hospital | Sacramento | $67,205.04 | $51,975.00 – $246,624.00 |
| Mercy Hospital of Folsom | Folsom | $119,920.92 | $33,910.80 – $252,789.60 |