Mra, w/o&w/dye, spinal canal at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$1,651.18
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.
$4,672.73
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.
$564.47 with Cigna vs $4,205.46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $564.47 | ↓ -66% |
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $794.37 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $810.26 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $841.10 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $841.10 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $841.10 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $842.03 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $846.24 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $849.51 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $866.33 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $866.33 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $883.15 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $899.97 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $908.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $908.38 | ↓ -45% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $950.46 | ↓ -42% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $967.26 | ↓ -41% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $967.26 | ↓ -41% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,002.46 | ↓ -39% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,028.01 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,089.84 | ↓ -34% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,102.78 | ↓ -33% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,556.02 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,598.08 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,614.90 | ↓ -2% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $1,627.55 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,725.20 | ↑ +4% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,748.00 | ↑ +6% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,816.00 | ↑ +10% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,869.10 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,242.92 | ↑ +36% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,798.32 | ↑ +69% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,364.37 | ↑ +104% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,205.46 | ↑ +155% |
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Mra, w/o&w/dye, spinal canal at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $2,062.30 | $1,101.40 – $4,205.46 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,426.85 | $564.47 – $4,205.46 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,421.21 | $564.47 – $3,504.55 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $1,547.60 | $564.47 – $3,504.55 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $898.11 | $1,091.29 – $1,091.29 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $1,466.42 | $564.47 – $3,504.55 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $1,346.88 | $564.47 – $3,504.55 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $388.77 – $427.64 |