Breastbone (Sternum) X-ray at Providence Centralia Hospital
914 S Scheuber Rd, Centralia, WA · Providence · · NPI 1275732661
$206.96
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.
$398.00
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.
$100.77 with Kaiser vs $666.27 with Blue Shield — 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 Managed Care Plan | $100.77 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $103.80 | ↓ -50% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $104.81 | ↓ -49% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $107.83 | ↓ -48% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $108.84 | ↓ -47% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $110.85 | ↓ -46% |
| Community Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $161.24 | ↓ -22% |
| Molina | Exchange | $170.31 | ↓ -18% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $181.39 | ↓ -12% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $186.43 | ↓ -10% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $295.70 | ↑ +43% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Uniform Medical Plan Other Commercial Plan | $344.45 | ↑ +66% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $376.79 | ↑ +82% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $424.40 | ↑ +105% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $497.22 | ↑ +140% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature All Commercial Plans | $535.39 | ↑ +159% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $554.65 | ↑ +168% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $666.27 | ↑ +222% |
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Breastbone (Sternum) X-ray at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $413.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $264.48 | $100.77 – $375.11 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $315.00 | $96.98 – $287.32 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $264.48 | $100.77 – $363.14 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $264.48 | $99.58 – $375.11 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $304.00 | $89.00 – $89.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $504.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $571.90 | $80.52 – $179.41 |