Cell cryopreserve/storage at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$30.40
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.
$76.00
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.
$12.81 with SCAN vs $60.64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $12.81 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | Prime | $13.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | HMO | $13.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | Signature | $13.07 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $13.15 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $13.15 | ↓ -57% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $13.16 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $13.19 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $13.19 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $13.32 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $13.45 | ↓ -56% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $13.45 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | RealValue | $13.53 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $14.09 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $14.38 | ↓ -53% |
| Regence | Commercial | $15.03 | ↓ -51% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $15.03 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $15.68 | ↓ -48% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $15.68 | ↓ -48% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $16.34 | ↓ -46% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $18.38 | ↓ -40% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $21.60 | ↓ -29% |
| First Choice | PPO | $24.83 | ↓ -18% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $25.62 | ↓ -16% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $44.53 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $44.53 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $60.64 | ↑ +99% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
| Molina | Apple Health | not published by hospital | — |
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Cell cryopreserve/storage at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $52.80 | $11.76 – $61.43 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $52.80 | $11.76 – $59.47 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $52.80 | $11.76 – $61.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $221.60 | $35.00 – $35.00 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $30.40 | $12.81 – $25.62 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $30.40 | $12.81 – $25.62 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $29.58 | $9.15 – $40.85 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $24.40 | $12.81 – $23.70 |