Pt application of modality >=1 area ultrasound each 15 minutes at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$23.60
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.
$59.00
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.
$8.21 with Molina vs $67.46 with Kaiser — 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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| Molina | Apple Health | $8.21 | ↓ -65% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $8.87 | ↓ -62% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $8.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $8.87 | ↓ -62% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $8.87 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $12.65 | ↓ -46% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $15.29 | ↓ -35% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $15.29 | ↓ -35% |
| Regence | RealValue | $15.73 | ↓ -33% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $15.92 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $16.39 | ↓ -31% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $16.39 | ↓ -31% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $16.55 | ↓ -30% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $16.71 | ↓ -29% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $16.71 | ↓ -29% |
| Regence | Commercial | $17.48 | ↓ -26% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $17.48 | ↓ -26% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $17.51 | ↓ -26% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $17.65 | ↓ -25% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $21.91 | ↓ -7% |
| Premera | HMO | $23.54 | ↓ -0% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $24.64 | ↑ +4% |
| Premera | Prime | $25.20 | ↑ +7% |
| Premera | Signature | $25.20 | ↑ +7% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $26.83 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $29.78 | ↑ +26% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $30.80 | ↑ +31% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $31.83 | ↑ +35% |
| First Choice | PPO | $33.29 | ↑ +41% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $43.07 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $43.07 | ↑ +83% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $67.46 | ↑ +186% |
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Pt application of modality >=1 area ultrasound each 15 minutes at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $66.00 | $14.75 – $16.23 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $56.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $38.40 | $11.80 – $44.81 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $77.00 | $14.75 – $37.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $38.40 | $11.80 – $44.39 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $38.40 | $11.80 – $32.75 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $27.04 | $14.75 – $34.33 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $49.70 | not published |