Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$872.40
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.
$2,181.00
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.
$663.68 with Molina vs $9,792.15 with United Healthcare — 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 | $663.68 | ↓ -24% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $716.78 | ↓ -18% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $716.78 | ↓ -18% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $716.78 | ↓ -18% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $716.78 | ↓ -18% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,592.13 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,592.13 | ↑ +83% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,183.74 | ↑ +150% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,183.74 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,249.26 | ↑ +158% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,249.26 | ↑ +158% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,271.09 | ↑ +160% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,292.93 | ↑ +163% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,402.12 | ↑ +175% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,600.08 | ↑ +198% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,058.68 | ↑ +251% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $3,630.30 | ↑ +316% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $3,681.79 | ↑ +322% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,367.49 | ↑ +401% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,632.19 | ↑ +431% |
| First Choice | PPO | $4,905.81 | ↑ +462% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6,247.11 | ↑ +616% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6,247.11 | ↑ +616% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6,425.60 | ↑ +637% |
| Premera | Signature | $6,952.41 | ↑ +697% |
| Premera | Prime | $7,108.85 | ↑ +715% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7,139.55 | ↑ +718% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $8,063.56 | ↑ +824% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $8,736.94 | ↑ +901% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $8,850.03 | ↑ +914% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $9,211.19 | ↑ +956% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $9,792.15 | ↑ +1022% |
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Esophagoscopy balloon <30mm at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $902.97 | $1,288.94 – $8,208.11 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $624.74 | $879.75 – $1,841.34 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $622.27 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $872.40 | $679.03 – $9,211.19 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $677.61 | $1,473.07 – $1,912.27 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $722.96 | $347.81 – $1,841.34 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $2,472.48 | $10.33 – $552.50 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $872.40 | $714.23 – $9,927.90 |