Treatment x10sv retinopathy at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$1,475.20
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.
$3,688.00
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.
$625.90 with SCAN vs $3,224.07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $625.90 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $644.68 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $644.68 | ↓ -56% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $650.94 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $657.20 | ↓ -55% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $657.20 | ↓ -55% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $688.50 | ↓ -53% |
| Molina | Apple Health | $751.70 | ↓ -49% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $811.84 | ↓ -45% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $811.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $811.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $811.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Premera | HMO | $994.32 | ↓ -33% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $1,055.28 | ↓ -28% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $1,251.81 | ↓ -15% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $1,415.04 | ↓ -4% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $1,708.76 | ↑ +16% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $1,908.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $1,908.36 | ↑ +29% |
| Regence | RealValue | $1,962.88 | ↑ +33% |
| Premera | Signature | $2,123.80 | ↑ +44% |
| Premera | Prime | $2,171.59 | ↑ +47% |
| Regence | Commercial | $2,180.98 | ↑ +48% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $2,385.82 | ↑ +62% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $2,457.47 | ↑ +67% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $2,559.40 | ↑ +73% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $2,640.11 | ↑ +79% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $2,668.93 | ↑ +81% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,692.24 | ↑ +83% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,692.24 | ↑ +83% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $2,806.63 | ↑ +90% |
| First Choice | PPO | $3,224.07 | ↑ +119% |
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Treatment x10sv retinopathy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,475.20 | $625.90 – $2,640.11 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,475.20 | $629.04 – $2,640.11 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $962.88 | $9.88 – $2,942.29 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,475.20 | $624.15 – $2,845.54 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,475.20 | $647.91 – $4,174.51 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,475.20 | $629.04 – $2,640.11 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $612.89 – $674.18 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $636.89 – $2,382.57 |