Brachy source palladium-103 nonstranded at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$123.81
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.
$394.52
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.
$88.79 with SoundPath vs $397.80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $88.79 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $88.79 | ↓ -28% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $89.68 | ↓ -28% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $91.45 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $91.45 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $91.45 | ↓ -26% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $95.01 | ↓ -23% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $95.89 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $95.89 | ↓ -23% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $96.78 | ↓ -22% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $102.11 | ↓ -18% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $102.11 | ↓ -18% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $168.70 | ↑ +36% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $170.48 | ↑ +38% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $175.80 | ↑ +42% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $176.55 | ↑ +43% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $179.44 | ↑ +45% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $191.59 | ↑ +55% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $197.26 | ↑ +59% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $219.68 | ↑ +77% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $220.37 | ↑ +78% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $242.42 | ↑ +96% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $259.39 | ↑ +110% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $284.06 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $285.31 | ↑ +130% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $295.89 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $300.33 | ↑ +143% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $300.33 | ↑ +143% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $338.13 | ↑ +173% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $397.80 | ↑ +221% |
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Brachy source palladium-103 nonstranded at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $128.59 | $64.48 – $326.13 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $128.59 | $64.48 – $291.44 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $128.59 | $64.48 – $326.13 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $112.00 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $128.59 | $64.48 – $284.50 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $174.13 | $248.55 – $381.71 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $120.47 | $169.65 – $355.07 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $120.00 | $176.55 – $295.89 |