Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$3,061.43
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.
$9,755.27
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.
$397.50 with SoundPath vs $2,766.28 with First Choice — 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 | $397.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $397.50 | ↓ -87% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $401.48 | ↓ -87% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $409.43 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $409.43 | ↓ -87% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $409.43 | ↓ -87% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $425.32 | ↓ -86% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $429.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $429.30 | ↓ -86% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $433.27 | ↓ -86% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $457.12 | ↓ -85% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $457.13 | ↓ -85% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $755.25 | ↓ -75% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $763.20 | ↓ -75% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $787.05 | ↓ -74% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $890.24 | ↓ -71% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $950.46 | ↓ -69% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,002.46 | ↓ -67% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $1,019.25 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,089.84 | ↓ -64% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,102.78 | ↓ -64% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,277.31 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,286.92 | ↓ -58% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,344.55 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,344.55 | ↓ -56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,513.91 | ↓ -51% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,615.48 | ↓ -47% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,682.79 | ↓ -45% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,781.08 | ↓ -42% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,766.28 | ↓ -10% |
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Brain MRI (with and without contrast) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $1,678.32 | $374.48 – $427.64 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,643.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,218.56 | $403.99 – $1,794.70 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $4,224.50 | $388.77 – $1,374.66 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,218.56 | $403.99 – $1,737.42 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,218.56 | $405.13 – $1,794.70 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $2,800.00 | $358.00 – $358.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,512.16 | $403.99 – $2,378.93 |