Mayo chromium at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$71.13
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.
$226.63
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.
$20.28 with Kaiser vs $169.98 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $20.28 | ↓ -71% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $20.28 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $20.28 | ↓ -71% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $20.48 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $20.89 | ↓ -71% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $20.89 | ↓ -71% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $21.29 | ↓ -70% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $21.56 | ↓ -70% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $21.70 | ↓ -69% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $21.90 | ↓ -69% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $21.90 | ↓ -69% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $22.11 | ↓ -69% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $23.32 | ↓ -67% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $23.32 | ↓ -67% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $24.34 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24.34 | ↓ -66% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $24.34 | ↓ -66% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $30.42 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $30.42 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $36.79 | ↓ -48% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $38.53 | ↓ -46% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $38.94 | ↓ -45% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $40.15 | ↓ -44% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $75.85 | ↑ +7% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $89.23 | ↑ +25% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $123.26 | ↑ +73% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $150.31 | ↑ +111% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $163.18 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $169.98 | ↑ +139% |
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Mayo chromium at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $141.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $35.52 | $18.25 – $95.32 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $143.50 | $20.28 – $73.01 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $35.52 | $18.25 – $92.27 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $35.52 | $18.25 – $95.32 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $91.20 | $15.00 – $15.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $143.50 | not published |
| Swedish Edmonds Hospital | Edmonds | $35.52 | $20.28 – $91.26 |