Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid lumbar/sacral needle placement w/guidance at St. Anthony Hospital
11567 Canterwood Blvd, Gig Harbor, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1447406699
$1,175.23
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.
$3,863.97
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.
$784.93 with SoundPath 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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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $784.93 | ↓ -33% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $784.93 | ↓ -33% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $792.78 | ↓ -33% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -31% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $808.48 | ↓ -31% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $839.88 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $847.72 | ↓ -28% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $847.72 | ↓ -28% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $855.57 | ↓ -27% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $902.67 | ↓ -23% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $902.67 | ↓ -23% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,491.37 | ↑ +27% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,507.07 | ↑ +28% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,554.16 | ↑ +32% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,600.83 | ↑ +36% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,753.18 | ↑ +49% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,766.64 | ↑ +50% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,928.64 | ↑ +64% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $2,035.28 | ↑ +73% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,314.15 | ↑ +97% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $2,476.86 | ↑ +111% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,607.26 | ↑ +122% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,607.26 | ↑ +122% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $2,782.06 | ↑ +137% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,897.98 | ↑ +147% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,935.64 | ↑ +150% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $3,453.69 | ↑ +194% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +288% |
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Injection(s) epidural/subarachnoid lumbar/sacral needle placement w/guidance at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $963.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $2,092.80 | $817.40 – $2,937.74 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $1,655.50 | $786.59 – $2,001.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $2,092.80 | $817.40 – $2,843.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $2,092.80 | $819.70 – $2,937.74 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,661.40 | $817.40 – $3,656.54 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $1,127.70 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $1,779.40 | $612.78 – $2,837.73 |