#a/b/c/c/h pnl-candida albicans ab at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$32.58
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.
$103.81
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.
$12.01 with Kaiser vs $89.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -63% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $12.01 | ↓ -63% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $12.13 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $12.37 | ↓ -62% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $12.37 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $12.61 | ↓ -61% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $12.77 | ↓ -61% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $12.85 | ↓ -61% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $12.97 | ↓ -60% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $12.97 | ↓ -60% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $13.09 | ↓ -60% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $13.81 | ↓ -58% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $13.81 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $14.41 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.41 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $14.41 | ↓ -56% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $18.02 | ↓ -45% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $18.02 | ↓ -45% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $21.76 | ↓ -33% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $22.82 | ↓ -30% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $23.06 | ↓ -29% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $23.78 | ↓ -27% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $44.92 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $52.84 | ↑ +62% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $72.98 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $74.49 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.59 | ↑ +138% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $89.00 | ↑ +173% |
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#a/b/c/c/h pnl-candida albicans ab at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $75.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $62.88 | $10.81 – $56.45 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $62.88 | $10.81 – $54.65 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $62.88 | $10.81 – $56.45 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $53.60 | $9.00 – $9.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $113.40 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $62.88 | $12.01 – $54.05 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $91.70 | $12.01 – $22.22 |