Echo transthoracic at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$782.84
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.
$2,494.51
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 $3,000.99 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 | $610.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $610.28 | ↓ -22% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $616.38 | ↓ -21% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $628.59 | ↓ -20% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $653.00 | ↓ -17% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↓ -16% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $659.10 | ↓ -16% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $665.21 | ↓ -15% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $701.82 | ↓ -10% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $701.82 | ↓ -10% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,159.53 | ↑ +48% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,171.74 | ↑ +50% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,208.35 | ↑ +54% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,277.05 | ↑ +63% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,363.43 | ↑ +74% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,368.97 | ↑ +75% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,505.97 | ↑ +92% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,563.38 | ↑ +100% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,796.05 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,846.10 | ↑ +136% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,870.89 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,961.04 | ↑ +151% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,064.28 | ↑ +164% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,064.28 | ↑ +164% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,324.30 | ↑ +197% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,734.47 | ↑ +249% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,000.99 | ↑ +283% |
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Echo transthoracic at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,263.43 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,850.80 | $608.89 – $1,733.69 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,248.80 | $632.74 – $2,191.19 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,248.80 | $634.52 – $2,263.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,717.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,058.70 | $488.84 – $1,126.45 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $1,005.90 | $383.24 – $1,882.98 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,771.70 | $608.89 – $1,882.32 |