Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at Sequoia Hospital
170 Alameda de las Pulgas, Redwood City, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1568646735
$903.09
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.
$2,481.00
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.
$49.47 with Brown Toland vs $26,402.00 with United — 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 | $49.47 | ↓ -95% |
| Connected Care | Commercial|Intel | $319.92 | ↓ -65% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $505.92 | ↓ -44% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $572.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Multiplan | Commercial|All Plans | $610.08 | ↓ -32% |
| Health Plan San Mateo | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Health Net | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Canopy Health | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Shield CA | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Chinese Community | Medicare|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| Humana | Commercial|All Plans | $641.12 | ↓ -29% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $662.16 | ↓ -27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|All Other Plans | $662.16 | ↓ -27% |
| Brown Toland | Commercial|All Plans | $705.23 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $1,288.00 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|ACO Trio | $1,327.00 | ↑ +47% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,719.00 | ↑ +90% |
| Sutter Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,006.71 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Plans | $3,729.00 | ↑ +313% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $6,595.00 | ↑ +630% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $7,645.00 | ↑ +747% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $19,277.00 | ↑ +2035% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $19,277.00 | ↑ +2035% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $26,402.00 | ↑ +2824% |
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Transfusion blood/blood component(s) at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $800.67 | $449.01 – $1,297.14 |
| Banner Lassen Medical Center | Susanville | $811.86 | $87.44 – $1,031.11 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $1,716.15 | $593.00 – $1,687.00 |
| Arroyo Grande Hospital | Santa Maria | $1,691.03 | $555.48 – $3,871.98 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $1,328.01 | $515.85 – $1,954.12 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,548.80 | $555.48 – $3,717.14 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $818.80 | $555.48 – $1,765.60 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $809.97 | $555.48 – $1,064.92 |