Lymph vessel x-ray trunk at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$1,959.52
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.
$6,244.00
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.
$1,470.68 with First Choice vs $15,697.00 with Aetna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,470.68 | ↓ -25% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,503.29 | ↑ +79% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,503.29 | ↑ +79% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,538.32 | ↑ +81% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,608.39 | ↑ +84% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,608.39 | ↑ +84% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,608.39 | ↑ +84% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,748.52 | ↑ +91% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.55 | ↑ +93% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,783.55 | ↑ +93% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $3,818.59 | ↑ +95% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $4,028.78 | ↑ +106% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $4,028.78 | ↑ +106% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $4,495.68 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $4,683.00 | ↑ +139% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,105.59 | ↑ +161% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $6,656.25 | ↑ +240% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $6,726.32 | ↑ +243% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $6,936.51 | ↑ +254% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $7,378.61 | ↑ +277% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,877.70 | ↑ +302% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $8,105.48 | ↑ +314% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $8,916.65 | ↑ +355% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9,032.98 | ↑ +361% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,666.49 | ↑ +444% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11,257.27 | ↑ +474% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $11,849.93 | ↑ +505% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11,849.93 | ↑ +505% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $13,342.45 | ↑ +581% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $15,697.00 | ↑ +701% |
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Lymph vessel x-ray trunk at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $7,908.48 | $3,656.33 – $13,496.13 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,517.60 | $3,518.52 – $8,954.64 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $7,908.48 | $3,656.33 – $12,997.30 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $7,908.48 | $188.81 – $13,496.13 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $10,880.00 | $3,148.00 – $3,148.00 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $3,521.00 | $3,518.52 – $14,113.93 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $4,772.04 | $3,595.75 – $11,578.53 |
| MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | Yakima | $5,453.20 | $3,766.83 – $9,920.64 |