Protein s total at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$4.74
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.
$13.00
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.
$2.64 with Blue Shield CA vs $40.44 with Cigna — 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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| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $2.64 | ↓ -44% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $2.76 | ↓ -42% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3.36 | ↓ -29% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $5.16 | ↑ +9% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $8.16 | ↑ +72% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $9.24 | ↑ +95% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $9.84 | ↑ +108% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10.80 | ↑ +128% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $11.61 | ↑ +145% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $12.00 | ↑ +153% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $12.77 | ↑ +169% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $14.76 | ↑ +211% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $14.76 | ↑ +211% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $36.34 | ↑ +667% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $40.44 | ↑ +753% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Protein s total at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $41.61 | $2.84 – $30.82 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $4.77 | $2.32 – $17.03 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $100.22 | $11.38 – $94.91 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $5.57 | $6.00 – $29.93 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $8.00 | $6.50 – $12.00 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $5.10 | $3.24 – $35.18 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $4.83 | $6.00 – $33.38 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $4.78 | $6.00 – $33.38 |