Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at Providence Centralia Hospital
914 S Scheuber Rd, Centralia, WA · Providence · · NPI 1275732661
$752.96
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.
$1,448.00
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.
$276.30 with Kaiser vs $1,796.65 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 | $276.30 | ↓ -63% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $284.59 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $287.35 | ↓ -62% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $295.64 | ↓ -61% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $298.40 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $303.93 | ↓ -60% |
| Community Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $442.08 | ↓ -41% |
| Molina | Exchange | $466.94 | ↓ -38% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $497.34 | ↓ -34% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $511.15 | ↓ -32% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Uniform Medical Plan Other Commercial Plan | $853.17 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $1,033.08 | ↑ +37% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,153.15 | ↑ +53% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature All Commercial Plans | $1,443.73 | ↑ +92% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $1,451.84 | ↑ +93% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $1,495.67 | ↑ +99% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $1,796.65 | ↑ +139% |
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Echocardiogram (Limited Follow-Up Heart Ultrasound) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $274.05 | $83.92 – $292.47 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $434.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,184.64 | $276.30 – $1,095.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $789.60 | $265.88 – $838.94 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,184.64 | $276.30 – $1,060.33 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,184.64 | $277.07 – $1,095.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $953.60 | not published |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $372.40 | not published |