MRI cardiac morph & func wo IV cont at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$2,984.80
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.
$8,200.00
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.
$354.48 with Humana vs $6,724.00 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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| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $354.48 | ↓ -88% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $389.93 | ↓ -87% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $402.00 | ↓ -87% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $517.79 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $517.79 | ↓ -83% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $517.79 | ↓ -83% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,109.52 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,551.72 | ↓ -48% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $3,526.00 | ↑ +18% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,643.00 | ↑ +22% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,837.72 | ↑ +29% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $5,576.00 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $6,314.00 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $6,504.10 | ↑ +118% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,724.00 | ↑ +125% |
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MRI cardiac morph & func wo IV cont at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $468.23 | $288.63 – $1,069.00 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $247.83 | $307.13 – $1,356.00 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $245.16 | $307.13 – $1,356.00 |
| St. Joseph's Medical Center Stockton | Stockton | $937.28 | $291.51 – $2,614.16 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $2,151.36 | $260.85 – $567.73 |
| Mercy Medical Center Merced | Merced | $388.83 | $220.80 – $345.00 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $745.45 | $307.13 – $1,907.00 |
| St. Mary Medical Center | Long Beach | $1,234.96 | $307.13 – $2,872.00 |