EKG (Tracing Only) at Providence Centralia Hospital
914 S Scheuber Rd, Centralia, WA · Providence · · NPI 1275732661
$196.04
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.
$377.00
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.
$68.31 with Kaiser vs $448.49 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 | $68.31 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $70.36 | ↓ -64% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $71.04 | ↓ -64% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $73.09 | ↓ -63% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $73.78 | ↓ -62% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $75.14 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $97.00 | ↓ -51% |
| Community Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $109.30 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | Exchange | $115.45 | ↓ -41% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $122.96 | ↓ -37% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $126.38 | ↓ -36% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Uniform Medical Plan Other Commercial Plan | $212.97 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $255.42 | ↑ +30% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $342.71 | ↑ +75% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature All Commercial Plans | $360.37 | ↑ +84% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $373.33 | ↑ +90% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $448.49 | ↑ +129% |
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EKG (Tracing Only) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $76.23 | $65.74 – $72.31 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $140.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $178.08 | $68.31 – $258.55 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $270.20 | $65.74 – $198.04 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $178.08 | $68.31 – $250.30 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $178.08 | $29.82 – $258.55 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $269.60 | not published |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $121.80 | not published |