Methacholine chloride 0.0625 mg/ml nebulization soln at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$471.75
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.
$1,296.00
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.
$0.78 with Brown Toland vs $1,062.72 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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| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $0.78 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $1.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.09 | ↓ -100% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1.09 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1.29 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $1.97 | ↓ -100% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $2.20 | ↓ -100% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $2.29 | ↓ -100% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2.66 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2.66 | ↓ -99% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2.66 | ↓ -99% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $9.60 | ↓ -98% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $285.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $285.12 | ↓ -40% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $324.00 | ↓ -31% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $557.28 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $777.60 | ↑ +65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $881.28 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $997.92 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,062.72 | ↑ +125% |
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Methacholine chloride 0.0625 mg/ml nebulization soln at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $235.20 | $1.09 – $588.00 |
| St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center | Stockton | $87.37 | $14.70 – $117.60 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $100.43 | $0.69 – $176.72 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $583.20 | $0.54 – $374.00 |
| Northridge Hospital Medical Center | Northridge | $64.73 | $0.62 – $232.00 |
| Glendale Memorial Hospital Health Center | Glendale | $202.45 | $0.69 – $496.80 |
| Mercy San Juan Medical Center | Carmichael | $147.96 | $0.72 – $89.64 |
| Mercy Medical Center Redding | Redding | $308.26 | $0.83 – $119.56 |