Abdominal X-ray (2 views) at Providence Portland Medical Center
4805 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR · Providence · · NPI 1003991845
$292.50
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.
$390.00
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.
$25.66 with Providence Health Plan vs $635.06 with Moda — 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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| Providence Health Plan | Connect Other Commercial Plan | $25.66 | ↓ -91% |
| Providence Health Plan | Signature, Choice, Extended Ppo Other Commercial Plan | $27.81 | ↓ -90% |
| Providence Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $114.35 | ↓ -61% |
| Allcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $116.21 | ↓ -60% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $124.34 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $125.50 | ↓ -57% |
| Careoregon | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $126.66 | ↓ -57% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Charter Other Commercial Plan | $151.22 | ↓ -48% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Core Other Commercial Plan | $165.67 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina Healthcare | Exchange | $212.66 | ↓ -27% |
| Unitedhealthcare | All Payer All Commercial Plans | $222.38 | ↓ -24% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $229.61 | ↓ -22% |
| Moda | Oebb All Commercial Plans | $232.41 | ↓ -21% |
| Bcbs | Regence All Commercial Plans | $448.03 | ↑ +53% |
| Moda | Non-Oebb All Commercial Plans | $635.06 | ↑ +117% |
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Abdominal X-ray (2 views) at other Oregon hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Vincent Medical Center | Portland | $292.50 | $25.66 – $448.03 |
| PORTLAND ADVENTIST MEDICAL CENTER | Portland | $188.16 | $31.60 – $1,058.40 |
| Sunnyside Medical Center | CLACKAMAS | $495.55 | $177.00 – $177.00 |
| Westside Medical Center | HILLSBORO | $495.55 | $177.00 – $177.00 |
| Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital | Hood River | $218.25 | not published |
| Providence Medford Medical Center | Medford | $360.00 | $105.95 – $264.88 |
| Providence Newberg Medical Center | Newberg | $292.50 | $28.94 – $212.66 |
| Providence Seaside Hospital | Seaside | $178.50 | not published |