Parathyroid planar imaging at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$1,524.80
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.
$4,189.00
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.
$137.86 with Kaiser vs $3,434.98 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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| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $137.86 | ↓ -91% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $169.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $169.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $169.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $169.57 | ↓ -89% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $393.05 | ↓ -74% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $589.28 | ↓ -61% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $648.21 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $689.89 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $693.32 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $848.52 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $848.52 | ↓ -44% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $848.52 | ↓ -44% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $1,175.03 | ↓ -23% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $1,801.27 | ↑ +18% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,844.45 | ↑ +21% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,394.45 | ↑ +57% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,848.52 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $3,225.53 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,434.98 | ↑ +125% |
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Parathyroid planar imaging at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,328.90 | $208.57 – $2,366.52 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $724.68 | $80.37 – $1,047.60 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,961.46 | $422.89 – $589.01 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,454.78 | $137.86 – $2,897.86 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $2,111.89 | $137.86 – $1,464.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,159.15 | $137.86 – $2,083.30 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $548.34 | $137.86 – $1,976.45 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $542.43 | $137.86 – $1,976.45 |