Echo stress at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$660.13
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.
$2,103.50
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.
$610.28 with SoundPath vs $2,734.47 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 | $610.28 | ↓ -8% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $610.28 | ↓ -8% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $616.38 | ↓ -7% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -5% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -5% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $653.00 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↓ -0% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↓ -0% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $665.21 | ↑ +1% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $701.82 | ↑ +6% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $701.82 | ↑ +6% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.53 | ↑ +76% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,171.74 | ↑ +78% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,208.35 | ↑ +83% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,277.05 | ↑ +93% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.43 | ↑ +107% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,368.97 | ↑ +107% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,505.97 | ↑ +128% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,514.52 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.38 | ↑ +137% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,577.63 | ↑ +139% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,846.10 | ↑ +180% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,961.04 | ↑ +197% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,034.60 | ↑ +208% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,064.28 | ↑ +213% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,064.28 | ↑ +213% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,324.30 | ↑ +252% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,734.47 | ↑ +314% |
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Echo stress at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $763.00 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,006.88 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,331.40 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,006.88 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,006.88 | $549.08 – $2,263.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,600.00 | not published |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $763.00 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,565.80 | $488.84 – $1,126.45 |