Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$862.92
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.
$2,749.70
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.
$53.69 with BCBS - Premera vs $2,062.28 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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| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $53.69 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $53.69 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $55.62 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $55.62 | ↓ -94% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $55.62 | ↓ -94% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $57.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $57.12 | ↓ -93% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $63.97 | ↓ -93% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $63.97 | ↓ -93% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $64.61 | ↓ -93% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $65.89 | ↓ -92% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $65.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $65.89 | ↓ -92% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $68.45 | ↓ -92% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $69.09 | ↓ -92% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $69.09 | ↓ -92% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $69.73 | ↓ -92% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $73.57 | ↓ -91% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $73.57 | ↓ -91% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $118.87 | ↓ -86% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $121.54 | ↓ -86% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $126.66 | ↓ -85% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $144.43 | ↓ -83% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $158.88 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $235.77 | ↓ -73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $277.38 | ↓ -68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,979.79 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,062.28 | ↑ +139% |
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Interferon beta-1a 30 mcg/0.5 ml im injection (wrapper) at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $19,397.81 | $45.64 – $127.66 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,213.58 | $107.75 – $2,474.73 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $839.64 | $1,182.38 – $2,474.73 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $836.32 | $144.43 – $2,062.28 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $910.70 | $144.43 – $2,062.28 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $971.65 | $53.58 – $2,474.73 |
| St. Clare Hospital | Lakewood | $792.58 | $144.43 – $2,062.28 |
| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | not published | $161.36 – $161.36 |