Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$75.13
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.
$212.60
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.
$36.15 with CHPW vs $191.34 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.
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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| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.15 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $36.87 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $38.27 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $38.27 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $38.27 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.32 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $38.51 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $38.66 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $39.42 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $39.42 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $40.19 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $40.95 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $41.33 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $41.33 | ↓ -45% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $44.01 | ↓ -41% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $44.01 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $46.78 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $65.04 | ↓ -13% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $70.80 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $72.71 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $73.48 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $85.04 | ↑ +13% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $92.40 | ↑ +23% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $99.11 | ↑ +32% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $100.77 | ↑ +34% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $101.65 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $102.05 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $104.18 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $104.18 | ↑ +39% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $110.56 | ↑ +47% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $113.65 | ↑ +51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $153.08 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $169.73 | ↑ +126% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $191.34 | ↑ +155% |
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Cytopathology fluids/washings/brushings smears with interpretation at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $261.10 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $88.32 | $43.25 – $157.12 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $142.10 | $41.62 – $120.35 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $88.32 | $43.25 – $152.11 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $88.32 | $43.37 – $157.12 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $460.00 | $40.00 – $40.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $136.50 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $88.32 | $42.54 – $150.44 |