Cytopath tbs c/v manual at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$29.84
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.
$103.51
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.
$18.19 with Kaiser vs $80.04 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 | $18.19 | ↓ -39% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -39% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $18.19 | ↓ -39% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $18.37 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $18.65 | ↓ -38% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $18.74 | ↓ -37% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $18.74 | ↓ -37% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $18.88 | ↓ -37% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $19.46 | ↓ -35% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $19.65 | ↓ -34% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $19.65 | ↓ -34% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $19.83 | ↓ -34% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $20.92 | ↓ -30% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $20.92 | ↓ -30% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $21.31 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $21.31 | ↓ -29% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $21.31 | ↓ -29% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $21.52 | ↓ -28% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $26.64 | ↓ -11% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $26.64 | ↓ -11% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $34.56 | ↑ +16% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $34.92 | ↑ +17% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $36.02 | ↑ +21% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $64.23 | ↑ +115% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $68.03 | ↑ +128% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $74.53 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $77.64 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $78.34 | ↑ +163% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $80.04 | ↑ +168% |
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Cytopath tbs c/v manual at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $29.61 | $18.54 – $20.39 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $39.90 | not published |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $90.30 | $18.54 – $54.43 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $94.40 | $22.00 – $22.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $41.30 | not published |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $135.80 | $18.54 – $59.12 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $46.90 | $18.54 – $64.65 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $40.56 | $18.54 – $63.50 |