Echo exam of fetal heart at St. Anne Hospital
16251 Sylvester Rd SW, Burien, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1558333682
$571.24
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.
$1,870.72
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.
$610.28 with Kaiser vs $2,502.15 with Aetna — 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $610.28 | ↑ +7% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $610.28 | ↑ +7% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $616.38 | ↑ +8% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↑ +10% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↑ +10% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $653.00 | ↑ +14% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↑ +15% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↑ +15% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $665.21 | ↑ +16% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $701.82 | ↑ +23% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $804.41 | ↑ +41% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $996.83 | ↑ +75% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,122.44 | ↑ +96% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.53 | ↑ +103% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,171.74 | ↑ +105% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,208.35 | ↑ +112% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,216.43 | ↑ +113% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,346.92 | ↑ +136% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.43 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,478.56 | ↑ +159% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.38 | ↑ +174% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,672.79 | ↑ +193% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,683.65 | ↑ +195% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,123.77 | ↑ +272% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,461.01 | ↑ +331% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,461.01 | ↑ +331% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,502.15 | ↑ +338% |
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Echo exam of fetal heart at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,312.16 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,178.40 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,312.16 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,312.16 | $634.52 – $2,263.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,881.60 | $549.00 – $549.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,188.50 | $488.84 – $1,126.45 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,467.90 | $454.37 – $1,882.98 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $1,483.04 | $622.26 – $2,022.64 |