Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$29.20
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.
$73.00
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.
$21.01 with United Healthcare vs $119.96 with Kaiser — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $21.01 | ↓ -28% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $22.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $22.18 | ↓ -24% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $22.84 | ↓ -22% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $22.84 | ↓ -22% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $23.06 | ↓ -21% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $23.29 | ↓ -20% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $24.40 | ↓ -16% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $28.77 | ↓ -1% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $28.77 | ↓ -1% |
| Regence | RealValue | $29.59 | ↑ +1% |
| Regence | Commercial | $32.88 | ↑ +13% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $32.88 | ↑ +13% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $36.39 | ↑ +25% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $36.85 | ↑ +26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $37.39 | ↑ +28% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $44.35 | ↑ +52% |
| Premera | Prime | $47.23 | ↑ +62% |
| Premera | Signature | $47.23 | ↑ +62% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $53.29 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $53.29 | ↑ +83% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $57.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $119.96 | ↑ +311% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| First Choice | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Caregiver training strategies&tq ea addl 15 min at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $116.20 | $22.63 – $57.59 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $102.20 | $22.63 – $41.87 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $45.76 | $20.37 – $52.50 |
| Providence St Peter Hospital | Olympia | $52.00 | $18.10 – $73.89 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $30.00 | $21.01 – $115.30 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $34.40 | $21.43 – $40.67 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $69.74 | $99.54 – $142.20 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $48.25 | $67.94 – $142.20 |