Vasectomy at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$1,371.20
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.
$3,428.00
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.
$1,428.57 with Molina vs $10,667.23 with United Healthcare — 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 | $1,428.57 | ↑ +4% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $1,542.85 | ↑ +13% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $1,542.85 | ↑ +13% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $1,542.85 | ↑ +13% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $1,542.85 | ↑ +13% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $2,378.89 | ↑ +73% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $2,450.25 | ↑ +79% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $2,450.25 | ↑ +79% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $2,474.04 | ↑ +80% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $2,497.83 | ↑ +82% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $2,497.83 | ↑ +82% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $2,502.44 | ↑ +83% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $2,502.44 | ↑ +83% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $2,616.77 | ↑ +91% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $2,957.60 | ↑ +116% |
| Premera | HMO | $3,257.63 | ↑ +138% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $4,010.80 | ↑ +193% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $4,129.48 | ↑ +201% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $4,757.77 | ↑ +247% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $4,958.39 | ↑ +262% |
| First Choice | PPO | $5,580.38 | ↑ +307% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $6,687.03 | ↑ +388% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $6,687.03 | ↑ +388% |
| Regence | RealValue | $6,878.09 | ↑ +402% |
| Premera | Signature | $7,441.98 | ↑ +443% |
| Premera | Prime | $7,609.44 | ↑ +455% |
| Regence | Commercial | $7,642.32 | ↑ +457% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $8,588.09 | ↑ +526% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $9,352.17 | ↑ +582% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $9,556.89 | ↑ +597% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $10,034.34 | ↑ +632% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $10,667.23 | ↑ +678% |
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Vasectomy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,371.20 | $1,428.57 – $10,034.34 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $1,371.20 | $1,461.60 – $10,034.34 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $2,811.12 | $10.42 – $1,182.18 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $1,371.20 | $1,537.36 – $10,815.11 |
| MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital | Tacoma | $1,371.20 | $1,454.89 – $14,588.63 |
| MultiCare Allenmore Hospital | Tacoma | $1,371.20 | $1,462.17 – $10,034.34 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $2,329.41 – $2,562.35 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | not published | $2,420.64 – $8,627.45 |