Apheresis plasma at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$1,551.96
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.
$4,945.32
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 $8,175.33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $0.70 | ↓ -100% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.58 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,824.58 | ↑ +18% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,842.83 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,879.32 | ↑ +21% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,879.32 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,879.32 | ↑ +21% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,952.30 | ↑ +26% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,970.55 | ↑ +27% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,970.55 | ↑ +27% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,988.79 | ↑ +28% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $2,098.27 | ↑ +35% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $2,098.27 | ↑ +35% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $3,466.70 | ↑ +123% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $3,503.19 | ↑ +126% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $3,551.76 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,560.64 | ↑ +129% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $3,612.67 | ↑ +133% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $3,699.99 | ↑ +138% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,708.99 | ↑ +139% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,792.00 | ↑ +144% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $4,070.27 | ↑ +162% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $4,223.52 | ↑ +172% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $4,348.10 | ↑ +180% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,134.41 | ↑ +231% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $5,863.03 | ↑ +278% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $6,171.69 | ↑ +298% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,171.69 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $6,949.03 | ↑ +348% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $8,175.33 | ↑ +427% |
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Apheresis plasma at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $2,496.06 | $1,735.51 – $1,909.06 |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,853.44 | $1,803.48 – $6,221.01 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,773.40 | $1,735.51 – $4,765.03 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,853.44 | $1,803.48 – $6,022.47 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,853.44 | $1,808.54 – $6,221.01 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,208.00 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $3,740.16 | $1,773.60 – $5,956.29 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $4,880.40 | $157.20 – $5,175.35 |