CT colonography screening at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$1,101.60
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.
$2,754.00
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.
$271.53 with SCAN vs $1,608.19 with Multiplan/PHCS — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $271.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $271.53 | ↓ -75% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $279.68 | ↓ -75% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $279.68 | ↓ -75% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $282.39 | ↓ -74% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $285.11 | ↓ -74% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $298.69 | ↓ -73% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $457.80 | ↓ -58% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $543.06 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $619.30 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $619.30 | ↓ -44% |
| Regence | RealValue | $637.00 | ↓ -42% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $707.78 | ↓ -36% |
| Regence | Commercial | $707.78 | ↓ -36% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $848.16 | ↓ -23% |
| Premera | Signature | $895.29 | ↓ -19% |
| Premera | Prime | $915.44 | ↓ -17% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,125.09 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,127.69 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,141.15 | ↑ +4% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,145.33 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,217.57 | ↑ +11% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,542.10 | ↑ +40% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,608.19 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,608.19 | ↑ +46% |
| Kaiser | PPO | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Premera | HMO | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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CT colonography screening at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,784.30 | $265.88 – $491.89 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,426.88 | $707.78 – $2,909.70 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $987.22 | $707.78 – $2,909.70 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $983.32 | $707.78 – $2,424.75 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,101.60 | $272.89 – $1,145.33 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,070.77 | $707.78 – $2,424.75 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $1,142.43 | $549.61 – $2,909.70 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,976.25 | $3.25 – $2,388.99 |