Biospy of bladder at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$668.61
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.
$1,892.11
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.
$0.70 with Cigna vs $2,077.00 with United — 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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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $304.20 | ↓ -55% |
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $321.66 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $328.10 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $340.58 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $340.58 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $340.58 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $340.96 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $342.67 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $343.99 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $350.80 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $350.80 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $357.61 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $364.43 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $367.83 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $367.83 | ↓ -45% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $391.67 | ↓ -41% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $391.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $416.27 | ↓ -38% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $584.64 | ↓ -13% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $610.81 | ↓ -9% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $630.08 | ↓ -6% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $643.15 | ↓ -4% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $647.11 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $653.92 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $700.39 | ↑ +5% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $756.85 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $908.22 | ↑ +36% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $1,045.93 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,362.32 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,702.90 | ↑ +155% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,814.50 | ↑ +171% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,910.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,077.00 | ↑ +211% |
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Biospy of bladder at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $413.70 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,773.12 | $289.32 – $1,104.03 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $212.10 | $278.42 – $728.19 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,773.12 | $289.32 – $1,068.80 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,773.12 | $290.13 – $1,104.03 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $448.76 | $289.32 – $1,374.17 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $497.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,745.40 | $219.00 – $1,066.45 |