Throat x-ray & fluoroscopy at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$147.74
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.
$418.09
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.
$71.08 with CHPW vs $384.56 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 | $71.08 | ↓ -52% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $72.50 | ↓ -51% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $75.26 | ↓ -49% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $75.26 | ↓ -49% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $75.26 | ↓ -49% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $75.34 | ↓ -49% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $75.72 | ↓ -49% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $76.01 | ↓ -49% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $77.52 | ↓ -48% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $79.02 | ↓ -47% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $80.53 | ↓ -45% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $81.28 | ↓ -45% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $81.28 | ↓ -45% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $86.55 | ↓ -41% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $86.55 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $91.98 | ↓ -38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $127.23 | ↓ -14% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $139.23 | ↓ -6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $142.99 | ↓ -3% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $144.50 | ↓ -2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $167.24 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $200.69 | ↑ +36% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $204.25 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $207.00 | ↑ +40% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $215.00 | ↑ +46% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $224.58 | ↑ +52% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $236.39 | ↑ +60% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $257.51 | ↑ +74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $260.05 | ↑ +76% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $301.03 | ↑ +104% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $313.57 | ↑ +112% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $376.29 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $384.56 | ↑ +160% |
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Throat x-ray & fluoroscopy at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $758.80 | $96.98 – $287.32 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $304.00 | $89.00 – $89.00 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $184.53 | $263.40 – $409.47 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $127.67 | $127.23 – $520.03 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $127.17 | $127.23 – $313.57 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $138.48 | $127.23 – $313.57 |
| Virginia Mason Medical Center | Seattle | $370.26 | $2.83 – $387.48 |
| St. Francis Hospital | Federal Way | $131.21 | $127.23 – $313.57 |