Plcmt sft tiss loc pq w/img 1st lsn at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$2,071.60
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.
$5,179.00
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.
$570.00 with Molina vs $3,879.66 with First Choice — 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 | $570.00 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $615.60 | ↓ -70% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $615.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $615.60 | ↓ -70% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $615.60 | ↓ -70% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $805.86 | ↓ -61% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $830.04 | ↓ -60% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $830.04 | ↓ -60% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $838.10 | ↓ -60% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $846.16 | ↓ -59% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $846.16 | ↓ -59% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $886.45 | ↓ -57% |
| Premera | HMO | $1,215.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,358.69 | ↓ -34% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,611.73 | ↓ -22% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,712.77 | ↓ -17% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,056.22 | ↓ -1% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $2,309.89 | ↑ +12% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $2,309.89 | ↑ +12% |
| Regence | RealValue | $2,375.89 | ↑ +15% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,570.68 | ↑ +24% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,628.52 | ↑ +27% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,639.88 | ↑ +27% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,870.95 | ↑ +39% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $3,004.73 | ↑ +45% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $3,230.51 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $3,282.45 | ↑ +58% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $3,399.19 | ↑ +64% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $3,613.58 | ↑ +74% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $3,780.67 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $3,780.67 | ↑ +83% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3,879.66 | ↑ +87% |
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Plcmt sft tiss loc pq w/img 1st lsn at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,796.16 | $820.01 – $2,867.05 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,099.30 | $789.10 – $2,008.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,796.16 | $820.01 – $2,775.55 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,796.16 | $822.31 – $2,867.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,680.00 | not published |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,406.30 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,850.80 | $623.43 – $2,769.45 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,637.30 | $142.29 – $2,263.14 |