Bundle his recording at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$2,507.01
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.
$8,697.62
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.
$3,596.53 with First Choice vs $37,842.90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $3,596.53 | ↑ +43% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $6,262.29 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $6,523.22 | ↑ +160% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $6,725.00 | ↑ +168% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8,600.66 | ↑ +243% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $8,600.66 | ↑ +243% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $8,686.67 | ↑ +246% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $8,858.68 | ↑ +253% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8,858.68 | ↑ +253% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $8,858.68 | ↑ +253% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $9,202.71 | ↑ +267% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $9,288.71 | ↑ +271% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $9,288.71 | ↑ +271% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $9,374.72 | ↑ +274% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $9,890.76 | ↑ +295% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $9,890.76 | ↑ +295% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $16,341.25 | ↑ +552% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $16,513.27 | ↑ +559% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $17,029.31 | ↑ +579% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $17,287.84 | ↑ +590% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $18,319.14 | ↑ +631% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $18,457.21 | ↑ +636% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $20,152.47 | ↑ +704% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $21,163.99 | ↑ +744% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $24,991.24 | ↑ +897% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $27,139.45 | ↑ +983% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $28,568.25 | ↑ +1040% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $28,568.25 | ↑ +1040% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $32,166.47 | ↑ +1183% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $37,842.90 | ↑ +1409% |
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Bundle his recording at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $28,663.41 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $6,454.70 | $8,691.51 – $22,119.90 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $16,884.00 | $9,031.93 – $27,603.98 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $16,884.00 | $9,057.27 – $28,663.41 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $16,303.20 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $4,812.50 | $330.46 – $21,835.98 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $5,514.60 | $8,882.28 – $22,306.84 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $10,897.20 | $4,203.69 – $29,960.74 |