Assay of tyrosine at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$41.52
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.
$132.28
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.
$10.63 with Kaiser vs $99.21 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -74% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $10.63 | ↓ -74% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $10.74 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $10.95 | ↓ -74% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $10.95 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $11.16 | ↓ -73% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $11.30 | ↓ -73% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $11.37 | ↓ -73% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $11.48 | ↓ -72% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $11.48 | ↓ -72% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $11.59 | ↓ -72% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $12.22 | ↓ -71% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $12.22 | ↓ -71% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $12.76 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.76 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $12.76 | ↓ -69% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $15.95 | ↓ -62% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15.95 | ↓ -62% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $18.87 | ↓ -55% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $20.20 | ↓ -51% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $20.41 | ↓ -51% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $21.05 | ↓ -49% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $36.73 | ↓ -12% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $39.76 | ↓ -4% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $44.81 | ↑ +8% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $46.77 | ↑ +13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $95.25 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $99.21 | ↑ +139% |
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Assay of tyrosine at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $48.00 | $8.00 – $8.00 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $46.40 | $8.25 – $19.27 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $13.60 | $11.00 – $19.08 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $58.39 | $10.63 – $119.06 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $40.40 | $10.63 – $119.06 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $40.24 | $10.63 – $99.21 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $17.60 | $8.43 – $20.83 |
| MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital | Puyallup | $17.60 | $8.63 – $20.83 |