Nm imaging bone/joint whole body at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$1,489.09
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.
$4,744.97
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.
$447.25 with SoundPath vs $3,558.73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $447.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $447.25 | ↓ -70% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $451.72 | ↓ -70% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -69% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $460.67 | ↓ -69% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $478.56 | ↓ -68% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $483.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $483.03 | ↓ -68% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $487.50 | ↓ -67% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $514.34 | ↓ -65% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $514.34 | ↓ -65% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $780.44 | ↓ -48% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $849.77 | ↓ -43% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $858.72 | ↓ -42% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $885.55 | ↓ -41% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $954.76 | ↓ -36% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,019.32 | ↓ -32% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,057.56 | ↓ -29% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,163.40 | ↓ -22% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,168.81 | ↓ -22% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,279.15 | ↓ -14% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,380.19 | ↓ -7% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,437.18 | ↓ -3% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,512.84 | ↑ +2% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,512.84 | ↑ +2% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,703.38 | ↑ +14% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,003.98 | ↑ +35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,416.38 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,558.73 | ↑ +139% |
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Nm imaging bone/joint whole body at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $462.93 – $1,730.21 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,190.30 | $445.48 – $1,325.27 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $462.93 – $1,674.99 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $464.23 – $1,730.21 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,382.40 | $402.00 – $402.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,101.36 | $462.93 – $2,293.45 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,127.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,382.50 | $365.46 – $824.14 |