ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$2,462.40
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.
$6,156.00
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.
$677.72 with Molina vs $3,595.25 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 | MedAdvantage | $677.72 | ↓ -72% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $677.72 | ↓ -72% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $698.05 | ↓ -72% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $698.05 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $704.83 | ↓ -71% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $711.61 | ↓ -71% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $745.49 | ↓ -70% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $895.76 | ↓ -64% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,026.80 | ↓ -58% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,142.64 | ↓ -54% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,250.68 | ↓ -49% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,355.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,563.63 | ↓ -36% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,690.11 | ↓ -31% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,849.09 | ↓ -25% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,108.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,108.76 | ↓ -14% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,169.01 | ↓ -12% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,346.84 | ↓ -5% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,399.64 | ↓ -3% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,410.02 | ↓ -2% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,537.75 | ↑ +3% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,860.29 | ↑ +16% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,949.22 | ↑ +20% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,038.99 | ↑ +23% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,595.25 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,595.25 | ↑ +46% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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ER Visit (level 5, high severity) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,095.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,272.00 | $689.62 – $2,456.96 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,339.40 | $663.63 – $1,688.93 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,272.00 | $689.62 – $2,366.15 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,272.00 | $691.55 – $2,456.96 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,623.20 | $1,398.00 – $1,398.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $2,809.56 | $689.62 – $3,143.10 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $998.90 | not published |