Place po breast cath for rad at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$5,206.80
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.
$13,017.00
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.
$3,106.15 with Molina vs $44,642.46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molina | Apple Health | $3,106.15 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3,354.65 | ↓ -36% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3,354.65 | ↓ -36% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3,354.65 | ↓ -36% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3,354.65 | ↓ -36% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $9,301.43 | ↑ +79% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $9,502.41 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $9,502.41 | ↑ +83% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $9,580.47 | ↑ +84% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $9,580.47 | ↑ +84% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $9,673.49 | ↑ +86% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $9,766.50 | ↑ +88% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $9,766.50 | ↑ +88% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $10,231.57 | ↑ +97% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $13,582.32 | ↑ +161% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $15,682.21 | ↑ +201% |
| Premera | HMO | $16,496.16 | ↑ +217% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $18,602.86 | ↑ +257% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $18,963.99 | ↑ +264% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $22,948.04 | ↑ +341% |
| First Choice | PPO | $25,627.01 | ↑ +392% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $30,948.42 | ↑ +494% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $30,948.42 | ↑ +494% |
| Regence | RealValue | $31,832.66 | ↑ +511% |
| Premera | Signature | $34,442.46 | ↑ +561% |
| Premera | Prime | $35,217.46 | ↑ +576% |
| Regence | Commercial | $35,369.62 | ↑ +579% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $39,234.15 | ↑ +654% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $40,770.58 | ↑ +683% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $41,708.72 | ↑ +701% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $43,283.06 | ↑ +731% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $44,642.46 | ↑ +757% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $39,620.18 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $38,155.78 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $12,513.60 | $7,277.00 – $39,620.18 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $5,674.20 | $8,352.91 – $16,849.74 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $5,206.80 | $3,106.15 – $40,770.58 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $5,206.80 | $3,177.97 – $40,770.58 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $11,668.29 | $35.05 – $10,253.27 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $5,206.80 | $3,342.71 – $42,286.94 |