Brace m arm board at St. Anthony Hospital
11567 Canterwood Blvd, Gig Harbor, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1447406699
$25.26
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.
$83.05
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.
$36.17 with Cigna vs $1,323.22 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 |
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| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $36.17 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $52.08 | ↑ +106% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $54.25 | ↑ +115% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $72.33 | ↑ +186% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $72.33 | ↑ +186% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $261.35 | ↑ +935% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $261.35 | ↑ +935% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $693.09 | ↑ +2644% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $762.46 | ↑ +2918% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $1,323.22 | ↑ +5138% |
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Brace m arm board at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $361.92 | $272.97 – $829.28 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $361.92 | $272.97 – $667.56 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $361.92 | $272.97 – $605.99 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $36.66 | $45.57 – $1,200.54 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $25.36 | $31.11 – $261.35 |
| St. Joseph Medical Center | Tacoma | $27.51 | $36.17 – $693.09 |
| St. Elizabeth Hospital | Enumclaw | $29.35 | $12.30 – $261.35 |
| MultiCare Capital Medical Center | Olympia | $139.20 | $235.22 – $494.89 |