Red blood cells washed each unit at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$765.20
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.
$1,913.00
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.
$259.38 with Molina vs $1,913.77 with Premera — 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 | $259.38 | ↓ -66% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $280.13 | ↓ -63% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $280.13 | ↓ -63% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $280.13 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $280.13 | ↓ -63% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $410.56 | ↓ -46% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $422.87 | ↓ -45% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $422.87 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $426.98 | ↓ -44% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $431.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $431.08 | ↓ -44% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $451.61 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $692.20 | ↓ -10% |
| Premera | HMO | $741.43 | ↓ -3% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $760.75 | ↓ -1% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $821.11 | ↑ +7% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,014.64 | ↑ +33% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $1,062.18 | ↑ +39% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $1,116.90 | ↑ +46% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $1,116.90 | ↑ +46% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,368.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,368.38 | ↑ +79% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,407.47 | ↑ +84% |
| First Choice | PPO | $1,435.38 | ↑ +88% |
| Premera | Signature | $1,522.88 | ↑ +99% |
| Premera | Prime | $1,557.15 | ↑ +103% |
| Regence | Commercial | $1,563.86 | ↑ +104% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $1,731.74 | ↑ +126% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $1,832.46 | ↑ +139% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $1,840.97 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $1,851.53 | ↑ +142% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $1,913.77 | ↑ +150% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $405.44 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $303.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $669.20 | $368.58 – $1,367.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,594.87 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,689.80 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $272.80 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $270.72 | $368.58 – $1,556.89 |