Drainage of nose lesion sept 30020 at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$275.90
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.
$879.15
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.
$566.82 with SoundPath vs $2,539.68 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 |
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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $566.82 | ↑ +105% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $566.82 | ↑ +105% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $572.49 | ↑ +107% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $583.82 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $583.82 | ↑ +112% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $583.82 | ↑ +112% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $606.50 | ↑ +120% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $606.62 | ↑ +120% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $612.17 | ↑ +122% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $612.17 | ↑ +122% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $617.83 | ↑ +124% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $632.99 | ↑ +129% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $651.84 | ↑ +136% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $651.84 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $659.37 | ↑ +139% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,076.96 | ↑ +290% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,088.29 | ↑ +294% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,122.30 | ↑ +307% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,183.09 | ↑ +329% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,242.96 | ↑ +351% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,273.65 | ↑ +362% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,359.80 | ↑ +393% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,367.35 | ↑ +396% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,559.22 | ↑ +465% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,821.38 | ↑ +560% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,841.19 | ↑ +567% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,917.27 | ↑ +595% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,917.27 | ↑ +595% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,158.73 | ↑ +682% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,539.68 | ↑ +821% |
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Drainage of nose lesion sept 30020 at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $277.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,584.48 | $624.54 – $2,076.08 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $919.80 | $601.00 – $1,529.54 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,584.48 | $624.54 – $2,009.83 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,584.48 | $626.29 – $2,076.08 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,055.08 | $624.54 – $2,584.06 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $333.20 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $7,473.90 | $487.53 – $2,005.41 |