Remove brain canal fluid at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$287.39
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.
$915.75
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.
$328.56 with Kaiser vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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 | $328.56 | ↑ +14% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $328.56 | ↑ +14% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $331.85 | ↑ +15% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $338.42 | ↑ +18% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $338.42 | ↑ +18% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $338.42 | ↑ +18% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $351.56 | ↑ +22% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $354.84 | ↑ +23% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $354.84 | ↑ +23% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $358.13 | ↑ +25% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $377.84 | ↑ +31% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $377.84 | ↑ +31% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $624.26 | ↑ +117% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $630.84 | ↑ +120% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $650.55 | ↑ +126% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $659.34 | ↑ +129% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $685.62 | ↑ +139% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $686.82 | ↑ +139% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $732.00 | ↑ +155% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $739.79 | ↑ +157% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $813.82 | ↑ +183% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $839.35 | ↑ +192% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $991.13 | ↑ +245% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,055.79 | ↑ +267% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,111.37 | ↑ +287% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,111.37 | ↑ +287% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,251.33 | ↑ +335% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,472.15 | ↑ +412% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $2,839.18 | ↑ +888% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +1485% |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $825.60 | $355.45 – $1,230.32 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,900.50 | $342.05 – $870.52 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $825.60 | $355.45 – $1,191.05 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $825.60 | $356.44 – $1,230.32 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $404.17 | $576.93 – $1,281.42 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $279.63 | $393.78 – $824.18 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $278.53 | $659.34 – $739.79 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $1,791.60 | $302.04 – $1,473.43 |