CT limited or localized follow-up study at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$636.55
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.
$2,028.36
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.
$98.00 with SoundPath vs $1,521.27 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $98.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $98.00 | ↓ -85% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $98.98 | ↓ -84% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -84% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -84% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $104.86 | ↓ -84% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $105.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $105.84 | ↓ -83% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $106.82 | ↓ -83% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $112.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $112.70 | ↓ -82% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $138.74 | ↓ -78% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $186.20 | ↓ -71% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $188.16 | ↓ -70% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $194.04 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $210.35 | ↓ -67% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $224.58 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $236.39 | ↓ -63% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $257.51 | ↓ -60% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $260.05 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $304.08 | ↓ -52% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $314.90 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $331.48 | ↓ -48% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $331.48 | ↓ -48% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $373.25 | ↓ -41% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $439.12 | ↓ -31% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $552.61 | ↓ -13% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,460.42 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,521.27 | ↑ +139% |
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CT limited or localized follow-up study at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $497.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $239.52 | $100.77 – $375.11 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $878.50 | $96.98 – $287.32 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $239.52 | $100.77 – $363.14 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $239.52 | $101.06 – $375.11 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,200.00 | $89.00 – $89.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $109.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,038.10 | $80.52 – $179.41 |