Bone biopsy open superficial at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$1,386.74
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.
$4,811.02
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.
$3,243.96 with Kaiser vs $14,273.42 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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| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $3,243.96 | ↑ +134% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $3,243.96 | ↑ +134% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $3,276.40 | ↑ +136% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $3,341.28 | ↑ +141% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $3,341.28 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $3,341.28 | ↑ +141% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $3,463.94 | ↑ +150% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $3,471.04 | ↑ +150% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $3,503.48 | ↑ +153% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $3,503.48 | ↑ +153% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $3,535.92 | ↑ +155% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $3,608.27 | ↑ +160% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $3,730.55 | ↑ +169% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $3,730.55 | ↑ +169% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $5,920.00 | ↑ +327% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $6,163.52 | ↑ +344% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $6,228.40 | ↑ +349% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $6,423.04 | ↑ +363% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $6,577.67 | ↑ +374% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $7,022.60 | ↑ +406% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $7,028.76 | ↑ +407% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $7,732.18 | ↑ +458% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $8,052.47 | ↑ +481% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $8,837.71 | ↑ +537% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9,508.65 | ↑ +586% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $10,236.34 | ↑ +638% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $10,775.25 | ↑ +677% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $10,775.25 | ↑ +677% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $12,132.41 | ↑ +775% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,273.42 | ↑ +929% |
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Bone biopsy open superficial at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $3,865.40 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $5,054.40 | $3,363.63 – $11,292.99 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,115.90 | $3,236.85 – $8,237.79 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $5,054.40 | $3,363.63 – $10,875.59 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $5,054.40 | $3,373.07 – $11,292.99 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $5,967.52 | $3,363.63 – $13,565.51 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $4,520.60 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $3,572.10 | $2,517.84 – $5,988.18 |