Warde viscosity at MultiCare Covington Medical Center
17700 SE 272nd Street, Covington, WA · Multicare · · NPI 1326564071
$23.20
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.
$58.00
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.
$3.92 with Molina vs $54.15 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 | $3.92 | ↓ -83% |
| WellPoint | Apple Health | $3.92 | ↓ -83% |
| United Healthcare | Apple Health | $4.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Apple Health | $4.23 | ↓ -82% |
| Coordinated Care | Apple Health | $4.23 | ↓ -82% |
| SCAN | MedAdvantage | $11.44 | ↓ -51% |
| Premera | HMO | $11.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Signature | $11.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Premera | Prime | $11.67 | ↓ -50% |
| Regence | MCC/AHN | $11.74 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | Blue High Performance | $11.74 | ↓ -49% |
| First Choice | MHS Employee MCC/PPO | $11.75 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | MedAdvantage | $11.78 | ↓ -49% |
| Regence | MedAdvantage | $11.78 | ↓ -49% |
| United Healthcare | MedAdvantage | $11.89 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | MedAdvantage | $12.01 | ↓ -48% |
| WellCare | MedAdvantage | $12.01 | ↓ -48% |
| Regence | RealValue | $12.08 | ↓ -48% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | MedAdvantage | $12.58 | ↓ -46% |
| Kaiser | PPO | $12.84 | ↓ -45% |
| Uniform Medical | All Commercial Plans | $13.42 | ↓ -42% |
| Regence | Commercial | $13.42 | ↓ -42% |
| Cigna | All Commercial Plans | $14.00 | ↓ -40% |
| United Healthcare | All Commercial Plans | $14.00 | ↓ -40% |
| Premera | Other Commercial Plans | $14.59 | ↓ -37% |
| First Choice | MCC Wellfound Employee | $16.41 | ↓ -29% |
| Community Health Plan of Washington | Cascade Care | $19.28 | ↓ -17% |
| First Choice | PPO | $22.17 | ↓ -4% |
| Ambetter | Coordinated Care Exchange | $22.87 | ↓ -1% |
| Multiplan/PHCS | All Commercial Plans | $33.58 | ↑ +45% |
| First Health | All Commercial Plans | $33.58 | ↑ +45% |
| Aetna | All Commercial Plans | $54.15 | ↑ +133% |
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Warde viscosity at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $119.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $58.08 | $10.50 – $54.85 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $66.50 | $11.67 – $42.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $58.08 | $10.50 – $53.10 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $58.08 | $10.50 – $54.85 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $95.20 | $9.00 – $9.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $86.32 | $11.67 – $72.70 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $119.70 | not published |