Place cecostomy tube perc at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$1,271.53
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.
$4,051.71
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.
$1,312.36 with SoundPath vs $9,270.42 with First Choice — 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 | $1,312.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $1,312.36 | ↑ +3% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $1,325.48 | ↑ +4% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $1,351.73 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $1,351.73 | ↑ +6% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $1,351.73 | ↑ +6% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $1,404.23 | ↑ +10% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.35 | ↑ +11% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $1,417.35 | ↑ +11% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $1,430.47 | ↑ +12% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $1,509.21 | ↑ +19% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $1,509.21 | ↑ +19% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $2,493.48 | ↑ +96% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $2,519.73 | ↑ +98% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $2,598.47 | ↑ +104% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $2,731.71 | ↑ +115% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,916.48 | ↑ +129% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,917.24 | ↑ +129% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $2,946.49 | ↑ +132% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,038.79 | ↑ +139% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $3,241.37 | ↑ +155% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $3,344.18 | ↑ +163% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,948.94 | ↑ +211% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $4,217.08 | ↑ +232% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $4,439.09 | ↑ +249% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $4,439.09 | ↑ +249% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $4,998.21 | ↑ +293% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $5,880.25 | ↑ +362% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $9,113.00 | ↑ +617% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $9,270.42 | ↑ +629% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $3,123.84 | $1,385.70 – $4,719.83 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $2,564.10 | $1,333.47 – $3,393.68 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $3,123.84 | $1,385.70 – $4,569.20 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $3,123.84 | $1,389.59 – $4,719.83 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $371.70 | not published |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $1,788.22 | $2,552.58 – $5,103.75 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $1,237.22 | $1,742.24 – $3,646.54 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $1,232.33 | $2,917.24 – $3,038.79 |