Electron microscopy diagnostic at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$625.62
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.
$1,770.44
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.
$264.02 with CHPW vs $3,639.11 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 | $264.02 | ↓ -58% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $269.30 | ↓ -57% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $279.55 | ↓ -55% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $279.55 | ↓ -55% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $279.55 | ↓ -55% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $279.86 | ↓ -55% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $281.26 | ↓ -55% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $282.34 | ↓ -55% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $287.93 | ↓ -54% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $287.93 | ↓ -54% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $293.53 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $299.12 | ↓ -52% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $301.91 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $301.91 | ↓ -52% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $321.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $321.48 | ↓ -49% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $341.67 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $402.98 | ↓ -36% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $517.16 | ↓ -17% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $531.14 | ↓ -15% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $536.73 | ↓ -14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $621.21 | ↓ -1% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $745.45 | ↑ +19% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $760.98 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $760.98 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $807.58 | ↑ +29% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $969.72 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,118.18 | ↑ +79% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,397.72 | ↑ +123% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,112.81 | ↑ +238% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,125.16 | ↑ +240% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $2,324.25 | ↑ +272% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,436.81 | ↑ +290% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $3,639.11 | ↑ +482% |
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Electron microscopy diagnostic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $425.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,952.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,113.30 | $863.91 – $2,284.91 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,858.31 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,952.54 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,807.20 | $2,078.00 – $2,078.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $410.90 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $829.44 | $785.37 – $2,826.90 |