Appl modality 1/> areas paraffin bath 97018 at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$19.20
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.
$48.00
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.
$3.36 with Molina vs $35.04 with First Health — 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $3.36 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3.63 | ↓ -81% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3.63 | ↓ -81% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3.63 | ↓ -81% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $5.14 | ↓ -73% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6.19 | ↓ -68% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6.37 | ↓ -67% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $6.75 | ↓ -65% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $6.75 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $6.95 | ↓ -64% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $6.95 | ↓ -64% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $7.02 | ↓ -63% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7.08 | ↓ -63% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $7.08 | ↓ -63% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $7.09 | ↓ -63% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $7.32 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $7.43 | ↓ -61% |
| Premera | HMO | $9.25 | ↓ -52% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9.86 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Signature | $10.17 | ↓ -47% |
| Premera | Prime | $10.17 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $10.22 | ↓ -47% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $11.38 | ↓ -41% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $12.43 | ↓ -35% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $13.50 | ↓ -30% |
| First Choice | PPO | $13.80 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $24.23 | ↑ +26% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $26.67 | ↑ +39% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $35.04 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $35.04 | ↑ +83% |
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Appl modality 1/> areas paraffin bath 97018 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $66.00 | $6.89 – $7.58 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $44.80 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $13.44 | $5.51 – $20.93 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $62.30 | $6.89 – $17.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $13.44 | $5.51 – $18.41 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $13.44 | $5.51 – $15.30 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $42.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $30.10 | $5.65 – $12.75 |