Assay of osteocalcin at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$131.91
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.
$457.61
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.
$29.85 with Kaiser vs $343.21 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 |
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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↓ -77% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $29.85 | ↓ -77% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $30.15 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $30.75 | ↓ -77% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $30.75 | ↓ -77% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $31.34 | ↓ -76% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $31.73 | ↓ -76% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $31.94 | ↓ -76% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $32.24 | ↓ -76% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $32.24 | ↓ -76% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $32.54 | ↓ -75% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $34.33 | ↓ -74% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $34.33 | ↓ -74% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $35.82 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.82 | ↓ -73% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $35.82 | ↓ -73% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $44.78 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $44.78 | ↓ -66% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $54.13 | ↓ -59% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $56.72 | ↓ -57% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $57.31 | ↓ -57% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $59.10 | ↓ -55% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $111.64 | ↓ -15% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $131.34 | ↓ -0% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $181.39 | ↑ +38% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $221.19 | ↑ +68% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $329.48 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $343.21 | ↑ +160% |
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Assay of osteocalcin at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $134.40 | $23.00 – $23.00 |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $75.60 | $29.85 – $55.22 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $109.20 | $29.85 – $116.71 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $131.60 | $8.53 – $54.12 |
| St. Michael Medical Center | Silverdale | $201.97 | $29.85 – $411.85 |
| St. Anne Hospital | Burien | $139.74 | $29.85 – $411.85 |
| St. Anthony Hospital | Gig Harbor | $139.19 | $29.85 – $343.21 |
| MultiCare Auburn Medical Center | Auburn | $75.60 | $8.73 – $58.51 |