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11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$23.20
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.
$80.46
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.
$9.44 with Kaiser vs $70.02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $9.44 | ↓ -59% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $9.44 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $9.44 | ↓ -59% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $9.53 | ↓ -59% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -58% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $9.72 | ↓ -58% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $9.91 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $10.03 | ↓ -57% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $10.10 | ↓ -56% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $10.20 | ↓ -56% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $10.20 | ↓ -56% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $10.29 | ↓ -56% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $10.86 | ↓ -53% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $10.86 | ↓ -53% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $11.33 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $11.33 | ↓ -51% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $11.33 | ↓ -51% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $14.16 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14.16 | ↓ -39% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $17.13 | ↓ -26% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $17.94 | ↓ -23% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $18.12 | ↓ -22% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $18.69 | ↓ -19% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $35.31 | ↑ +52% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $41.54 | ↑ +79% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $57.32 | ↑ +147% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $57.94 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $60.35 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $70.02 | ↑ +202% |
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Culture bact stool aero addl path ea at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $103.95 | $9.44 – $10.38 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $46.20 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $59.52 | $8.50 – $44.37 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $147.00 | $9.44 – $33.98 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $59.52 | $8.50 – $42.95 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $59.52 | $8.50 – $44.37 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $76.00 | $7.00 – $7.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $54.60 | not published |