Echo transthoracic at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$492.45
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$1,393.58
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$236.91 with CHPW vs $2,334.72 with BCBS - Premera — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $236.91 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $241.65 | ↓ -51% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $250.85 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $250.85 | ↓ -49% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $250.85 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $251.13 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $252.38 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $253.36 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $258.37 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $258.37 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $263.39 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $268.41 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $270.92 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $270.92 | ↓ -45% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $288.48 | ↓ -41% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $288.48 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $306.59 | ↓ -38% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $464.07 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $476.61 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $481.63 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $557.44 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $668.92 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,003.38 | ↑ +104% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,045.19 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,254.23 | ↑ +155% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.43 | ↑ +177% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,368.97 | ↑ +178% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,420.00 | ↑ +188% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,505.97 | ↑ +206% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.38 | ↑ +217% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,612.15 | ↑ +227% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,697.00 | ↑ +245% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $2,334.72 | ↑ +374% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Echo transthoracic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | $1,331.40 | $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 | $557.04 – $2,263.43 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $653.80 | $270.22 – $1,882.98 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,401.40 | $608.89 – $1,598.35 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $1,476.28 | $622.26 – $2,022.64 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $932.80 | $314.78 – $2,238.93 |