Echo transthoracic at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$881.48
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.
$2,494.51
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.
$424.07 with CHPW vs $2,334.72 with BCBS - Premera — 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 | $424.07 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $432.55 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $449.02 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $449.02 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $449.02 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $449.52 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $451.76 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $453.51 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $462.49 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $462.49 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $471.47 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $480.45 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $484.94 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $484.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $516.37 | ↓ -41% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $516.37 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $548.80 | ↓ -38% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $830.68 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $853.13 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $862.11 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $997.81 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,197.37 | ↑ +36% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.43 | ↑ +55% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,368.97 | ↑ +55% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,420.00 | ↑ +61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,505.97 | ↑ +71% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.38 | ↑ +77% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,612.15 | ↑ +83% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,697.00 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,796.05 | ↑ +104% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,870.89 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,245.06 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $2,334.72 | ↑ +165% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,850.80 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,248.80 | $634.52 – $2,263.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,717.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,058.70 | $488.84 – $1,126.45 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,005.90 | $383.24 – $1,882.98 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,771.70 | $608.89 – $1,882.32 |