Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$485.83
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.
$1,548.09
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.
$226.38 with SoundPath vs $1,161.07 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 | $226.38 | ↓ -53% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $226.38 | ↓ -53% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $228.64 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $233.17 | ↓ -52% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $233.17 | ↓ -52% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $233.17 | ↓ -52% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $242.23 | ↓ -50% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $244.49 | ↓ -50% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $244.49 | ↓ -50% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $246.75 | ↓ -49% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $260.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $260.34 | ↓ -46% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $406.00 | ↓ -16% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $430.12 | ↓ -11% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $434.65 | ↓ -11% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $448.23 | ↓ -8% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $493.75 | ↑ +2% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $511.79 | ↑ +5% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $521.05 | ↑ +7% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $527.13 | ↑ +9% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $573.20 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $604.44 | ↑ +24% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $713.76 | ↑ +47% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $727.46 | ↑ +50% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $765.76 | ↑ +58% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $765.76 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $862.18 | ↑ +77% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,014.33 | ↑ +109% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,114.63 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,161.07 | ↑ +139% |
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Initiation & management bipap/cpap initial day at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $170.66 | $244.02 – $268.42 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $339.50 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $1,015.20 | $253.57 – $864.61 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,142.40 | $244.02 – $662.26 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $1,015.20 | $253.57 – $837.02 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $1,015.20 | $254.28 – $864.61 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $980.72 | $253.57 – $1,146.07 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $339.50 | not published |