Bupivacaine 0.1 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at St. Elizabeth Hospital

1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040

Source: hospital's published price file ↗ · Published Feb 28, 2026 · Ingested Sep 17, 2026

$317.96

Cash price

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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.

$899.80

Gross charge

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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.

$1.40 with CHPW vs $7.38 with MultiPlan — 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.

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Payer
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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.

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Plan
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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.

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Negotiated rate vs. cash
CHPW Medicaid|All Plans $1.40 ↓ -100%
Coordinated Care Medicaid|All Plans $1.43 ↓ -100%
United Medicaid|All Plans $1.48 ↓ -100%
SoundPath Medicare|All Plans $1.48 ↓ -100%
Kaiser Medicare|All Plans $1.48 ↓ -100%
Amerigroup Medicare|All Plans $1.48 ↓ -100%
Molina Medicaid|All Plans $1.49 ↓ -100%
Optum Medicare|All Plans $1.50 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Premera Medicare|All Plans $1.53 ↓ -100%
BCBS - Regence Medicare|All Plans $1.53 ↓ -100%
CHPW Medicare|All Plans $1.55 ↓ -100%
Humana Medicare|All Plans $1.58 ↓ -100%
Molina Medicare|All Plans $1.60 ↓ -99%
United Medicare|All Plans $1.60 ↓ -99%
Seattle Medical Group Medicare|All Plans $1.70 ↓ -99%
WellPoint Medicaid|All Plans $1.70 ↓ -99%
Aetna Medicare|All Plans $1.81 ↓ -99%
Coordinated Care Commercial|Ambetter Exchange $2.74 ↓ -99%
Sound Family Medicine Commercial|All Plans $2.81 ↓ -99%
Molina Commercial|Marketplace Exchange $2.84 ↓ -99%
United Commercial|Cascade Care $2.96 ↓ -99%
United Commercial|Navigate $3.04 ↓ -99%
United Commercial|All Other Plans $3.20 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial|AWH $3.28 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial|All Other Plans $3.94 ↓ -99%
Cigna Commercial|All Plans $4.10 ↓ -99%
Aetna Commercial|Rental $5.91 ↓ -98%
First Choice Commercial|All Plans $6.15 ↓ -98%
MultiPlan Commercial|All Plans $7.38 ↓ -98%

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Bupivacaine 0.1 % epidural pca - 1 hour dose limit at other Washington hospitals

Hospital City Cash price Negotiated range
Providence St Joseph Hospital Chewelah $70.66 not published
Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus Seattle $38.52 $0.01 – $0.03
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital Spokane $70.66 $0.01 – $0.02
Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill Seattle $38.52 $0.01 – $0.03
Swedish Issaquah Issaquah $38.52 $0.01 – $0.02
Central Medical Center Seattle $3.40 $0.01 – $0.01
Providence Centralia Hospital Centralia $43.19 $0.01 – $0.07
Providence Mount Carmel Hospital Colville $154.26 not published

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