Uric acid urine at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$12.00
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.
$30.00
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.
$3.39 with Molina vs $23.57 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 |
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| Molina | Apple Health | $3.39 | ↓ -72% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.39 | ↓ -72% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $3.66 | ↓ -70% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $3.66 | ↓ -70% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $3.66 | ↓ -70% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $4.98 | ↓ -59% |
| Premera | HMO | $5.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | Signature | $5.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Premera | Prime | $5.08 | ↓ -58% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $5.11 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $5.11 | ↓ -57% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $5.12 | ↓ -57% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $5.13 | ↓ -57% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $5.13 | ↓ -57% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $5.18 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $5.23 | ↓ -56% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $5.23 | ↓ -56% |
| Regence | RealValue | $5.26 | ↓ -56% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $5.48 | ↓ -54% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $5.59 | ↓ -53% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $5.84 | ↓ -51% |
| Regence | Commercial | $5.84 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $6.10 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $6.10 | ↓ -49% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $6.35 | ↓ -47% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $7.14 | ↓ -41% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $8.39 | ↓ -30% |
| First Choice | PPO | $9.65 | ↓ -20% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $9.96 | ↓ -17% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $17.52 | ↑ +46% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $17.52 | ↑ +46% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $23.57 | ↑ +96% |
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Uric acid urine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $34.65 | $5.08 – $5.59 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $87.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $35.04 | $4.57 – $23.88 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $45.50 | $5.08 – $18.29 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $35.04 | $4.57 – $23.11 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $35.04 | $4.57 – $23.88 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $23.20 | $4.00 – $4.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $56.16 | $5.08 – $31.65 |