Screening Mammogram at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$351.99
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.
$967.00
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.
$119.45 with Partnership Health Plan vs $967.00 with BCBS - Anthem — 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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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|< 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|> 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicaid|< 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Kaiser | Medicaid|> 21 | $119.45 | ↓ -66% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|> 21 | $146.92 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $146.92 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $146.92 | ↓ -58% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicaid|< 21 | $146.92 | ↓ -58% |
| Brown Toland | Medicare|All Plans | $170.33 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $217.46 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $217.46 | ↓ -38% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $217.46 | ↓ -38% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $415.81 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $529.30 | ↑ +50% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $543.96 | ↑ +55% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $657.56 | ↑ +87% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $744.59 | ↑ +112% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $792.94 | ↑ +125% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $870.30 | ↑ +147% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $967.00 | ↑ +175% |
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Screening Mammogram at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Redwood City Medical Center | Redwood City | $375.20 | $133.00 – $133.00 |
| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $205.86 | $105.30 – $414.57 |
| Santa Clara Medical Center | SANTA CLARA | $375.20 | $133.00 – $133.00 |
| Baldwin Park Medical Center | BALDWIN PARK | $380.12 | $84.00 – $84.00 |
| Riverside Medical Center | RIVERSIDE | $380.12 | $84.00 – $84.00 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $264.42 | $102.09 – $241.53 |
| Sacramento Medical Center | SACRAMENTO | $375.20 | $133.00 – $133.00 |
| Oakland Medical Center | Oakland | $375.20 | $133.00 – $133.00 |