Heart image spect at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$1,287.75
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.
?
What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$4,103.42
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.
?
The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$447.25 with SoundPath vs $3,077.57 with MultiPlan — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
?
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 →
?
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 | $447.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $447.25 | ↓ -65% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $451.72 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -64% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -64% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $478.56 | ↓ -63% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $483.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $483.03 | ↓ -62% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $487.50 | ↓ -62% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $514.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $514.34 | ↓ -60% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $780.44 | ↓ -39% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $849.77 | ↓ -34% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $858.72 | ↓ -33% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $885.55 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $954.76 | ↓ -26% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,019.32 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,057.56 | ↓ -18% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,163.40 | ↓ -10% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.81 | ↓ -9% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,380.19 | ↑ +7% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,437.18 | ↑ +12% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,512.84 | ↑ +17% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,512.84 | ↑ +17% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,541.47 | ↑ +20% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,703.38 | ↑ +32% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,003.98 | ↑ +56% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,954.47 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,077.57 | ↑ +139% |
Visitor-reported prices
Comments
Heart image spect at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $5,937.40 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $585.90 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $2,725.80 | $365.46 – $824.14 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $4,153.10 | $445.48 – $1,412.57 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,811.04 | $1,519.74 – $3,693.08 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,253.01 | $780.44 – $3,693.08 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,248.05 | $780.44 – $3,077.57 |