Ventilator initial day at St. Elizabeth Hospital
1455 Battersby Avenue, Enumclaw, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1073674040
$3,164.60
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.
$8,955.62
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.
$151.00 with United vs $6,163.57 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 |
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| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $151.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $171.00 | ↓ -95% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $180.00 | ↓ -94% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,125.71 | ↓ -64% |
| CHPW | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,164.23 | ↓ -63% |
| Coordinated Care | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,187.52 | ↓ -62% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.72 | ↓ -61% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.72 | ↓ -61% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,232.72 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,234.09 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,240.25 | ↓ -61% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,245.05 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,269.70 | ↓ -60% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,269.70 | ↓ -60% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,294.35 | ↓ -59% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,319.01 | ↓ -58% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,331.34 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,331.34 | ↓ -58% |
| WellPoint | Medicaid|All Plans | $1,417.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.63 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,506.66 | ↓ -52% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,514.78 | ↓ -52% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,548.77 | ↓ -51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,666.37 | ↓ -47% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,775.90 | ↓ -44% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,280.53 | ↓ -28% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $2,342.16 | ↓ -26% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,366.82 | ↓ -25% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Plans | $2,652.09 | ↓ -16% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,739.37 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,287.24 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $4,930.86 | ↑ +56% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,163.57 | ↑ +95% |
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Ventilator initial day at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,566.53 | $688.43 – $757.27 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $1,180.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,136.48 | $715.39 – $2,183.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,877.70 | $688.43 – $1,752.05 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,136.48 | $715.39 – $2,113.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,136.48 | $717.40 – $2,183.29 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $2,424.24 | $715.39 – $2,894.02 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,542.10 | not published |