Exchange drainage catheter at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$1,530.78
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.
$4,332.00
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.
$0.70 with Cigna vs $8,052.88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $736.44 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $751.17 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $779.76 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $779.76 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $779.76 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $780.63 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $784.53 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $787.56 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $803.16 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $803.16 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $818.75 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $834.35 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $842.15 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $842.15 | ↓ -45% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $896.73 | ↓ -41% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $896.73 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $953.04 | ↓ -38% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,442.56 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,481.55 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,497.14 | ↓ -2% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,711.90 | ↑ +12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,732.80 | ↑ +13% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,802.00 | ↑ +18% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,960.00 | ↑ +28% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,079.36 | ↑ +36% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,119.04 | ↑ +104% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,249.00 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,898.80 | ↑ +155% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,702.71 | ↑ +207% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $4,738.69 | ↑ +210% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $5,212.93 | ↑ +241% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $5,392.38 | ↑ +252% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $8,052.88 | ↑ +426% |
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Exchange drainage catheter at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,352.30 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $3,700.90 | $2,138.32 – $5,442.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,673.28 | $2,222.08 – $7,304.21 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,673.28 | $2,228.31 – $7,584.54 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $3,397.16 | $2,222.08 – $9,110.79 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $4,030.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,712.50 | $1,686.08 – $3,955.90 |