Bundled special stain group 2 at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$121.85
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.
$388.27
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.
$59.10 with First Choice vs $642.84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $59.10 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $87.26 | ↓ -28% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $92.40 | ↓ -24% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $101.65 | ↓ -17% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $143.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $143.47 | ↑ +18% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $144.90 | ↑ +19% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $147.77 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $147.77 | ↑ +21% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $147.77 | ↑ +21% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $151.17 | ↑ +24% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $153.51 | ↑ +26% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $154.95 | ↑ +27% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $154.95 | ↑ +27% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $156.38 | ↑ +28% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $164.99 | ↑ +35% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $164.99 | ↑ +35% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $173.34 | ↑ +42% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $272.59 | ↑ +124% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $275.46 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $279.56 | ↑ +129% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $284.07 | ↑ +133% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $291.21 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $295.69 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $427.45 | ↑ +251% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $461.03 | ↑ +278% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $485.30 | ↑ +298% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $485.30 | ↑ +298% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $546.41 | ↑ +348% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $642.84 | ↑ +428% |
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Bundled special stain group 2 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $185.85 | $40.25 – $163.09 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $116.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $112.32 | $136.65 – $468.06 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $289.80 | $120.35 – $377.33 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $112.32 | $136.65 – $360.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $112.32 | $135.25 – $342.99 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $336.80 | $351.00 – $351.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $39.00 | $154.07 – $285.03 |