Culture urine each isolate at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$24.68
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.
$85.59
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.
$8.09 with Kaiser vs $64.20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -67% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $8.09 | ↓ -67% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $8.17 | ↓ -67% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -66% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $8.33 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $8.49 | ↓ -66% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $8.60 | ↓ -65% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $8.66 | ↓ -65% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -65% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $8.74 | ↓ -65% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $8.82 | ↓ -64% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $9.30 | ↓ -62% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $9.30 | ↓ -62% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $9.71 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $9.71 | ↓ -61% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $9.71 | ↓ -61% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $12.14 | ↓ -51% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $12.14 | ↓ -51% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $14.67 | ↓ -41% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $15.37 | ↓ -38% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $15.53 | ↓ -37% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $16.02 | ↓ -35% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $30.26 | ↑ +23% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $35.60 | ↑ +44% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $39.00 | ↑ +58% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $47.54 | ↑ +93% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $61.63 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $64.20 | ↑ +160% |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture urine each isolate at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $127.26 | $8.09 – $8.90 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $79.80 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $182.00 | $8.09 – $29.12 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $70.40 | $6.00 – $6.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $53.20 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $130.90 | $8.09 – $31.63 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $112.70 | $8.09 – $34.50 |
| MultiCare Valley Hospital | Spokane Valley | $36.00 | $4.89 – $14.67 |