Motion test w/ft press meas at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center
202 North Division Street, Auburn, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1255327201
$855.60
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.
$2,139.00
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.
$977.26 with Molina vs $5,780.92 with First Choice — 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 | $977.26 | ↑ +14% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $977.26 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $1,006.58 | ↑ +18% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $1,006.58 | ↑ +18% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $1,016.35 | ↑ +19% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $1,026.12 | ↑ +20% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $1,074.98 | ↑ +26% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,561.47 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,561.47 | ↑ +83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,647.66 | ↑ +93% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,750.42 | ↑ +105% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,954.52 | ↑ +128% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $2,545.24 | ↑ +197% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $3,063.89 | ↑ +258% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $3,432.59 | ↑ +301% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $3,432.59 | ↑ +301% |
| Regence | RealValue | $3,530.66 | ↑ +313% |
| Premera | Signature | $3,820.13 | ↑ +346% |
| Premera | Prime | $3,906.08 | ↑ +357% |
| Regence | Commercial | $3,922.96 | ↑ +359% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $4,122.14 | ↑ +382% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $4,277.88 | ↑ +400% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $4,326.18 | ↑ +406% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $4,382.13 | ↑ +412% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $4,746.44 | ↑ +455% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $4,800.67 | ↑ +461% |
| First Choice | PPO | $5,780.92 | ↑ +576% |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | 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 | — |
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Motion test w/ft press meas at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $855.60 | $982.16 – $4,326.18 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $1,686.06 | $3.24 – $603.37 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $855.60 | $974.52 – $4,442.88 |
| MultiCare Covington Medical Center | Covington | $855.60 | $977.26 – $4,326.18 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $855.60 | $1,011.62 – $7,348.90 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $855.60 | $982.16 – $4,326.18 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $956.93 – $1,052.63 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $994.41 – $4,272.07 |