Three-Phase Bone Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at Providence Centralia Hospital
914 S Scheuber Rd, Centralia, WA · Providence · · NPI 1275732661
$1,101.36
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.
$2,118.00
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.
$462.93 with Kaiser vs $3,715.68 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 Managed Care Plan | $462.93 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Hmo | $476.82 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | Medicare Managed Care - Ppo | $481.45 | ↓ -56% |
| Unitedhealthcare | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $495.34 | ↓ -55% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Medicare Managed Care Plan | $499.97 | ↓ -55% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $509.22 | ↓ -54% |
| Community Health Plan | Medicare Managed Care Plan | $740.69 | ↓ -33% |
| Molina | Exchange | $782.35 | ↓ -29% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Lifewise Exchange | $833.28 | ↓ -24% |
| Coordinated Care | Ambetter Exchange | $856.42 | ↓ -22% |
| Blue Shield | Regence Uniform Medical Plan Other Commercial Plan | $1,563.39 | ↑ +42% |
| Kaiser | All Commercial Plans | $1,730.90 | ↑ +57% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,926.23 | ↑ +75% |
| First Choice | All Commercial Plans | $2,293.45 | ↑ +108% |
| Blue Cross | Premera Heritage Signature All Commercial Plans | $2,430.11 | ↑ +121% |
| Blue Cross | Premera All Commercial Plans | $2,517.53 | ↑ +129% |
| Blue Shield | Regence All Commercial Plans | $3,024.06 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,715.68 | ↑ +237% |
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Three-Phase Bone Scan (Nuclear Medicine) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,224.09 | $163.99 – $490.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,298.10 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $464.23 – $1,730.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,197.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,696.10 | $365.46 – $824.14 |