ER Visit (level 1, minor) at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$241.33
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.
$769.00
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 $576.75 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 | ↓ -59% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $98.00 | ↓ -59% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $98.98 | ↓ -59% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $100.94 | ↓ -58% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $104.86 | ↓ -57% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $105.84 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $105.84 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $106.82 | ↓ -56% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $112.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $112.70 | ↓ -53% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $186.20 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $188.16 | ↓ -22% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $194.04 | ↓ -20% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $205.51 | ↓ -15% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $218.50 | ↓ -9% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $219.42 | ↓ -9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $240.34 | ↓ -0% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $251.60 | ↑ +4% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $297.08 | ↑ +23% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $314.93 | ↑ +30% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $331.51 | ↑ +37% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $331.51 | ↑ +37% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $334.03 | ↑ +38% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $338.36 | ↑ +40% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $373.25 | ↑ +55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $439.12 | ↑ +82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $553.68 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $576.75 | ↑ +139% |
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ER Visit (level 1, minor) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $144.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $216.00 | $97.65 – $339.05 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $235.90 | $93.97 – $239.14 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $216.00 | $97.65 – $326.52 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $216.00 | $97.92 – $339.05 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $367.20 | $144.00 – $144.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $284.44 | $97.65 – $433.73 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $128.80 | not published |