Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$33.61
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.
$116.57
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.
$26.61 with SoundPath vs $196.37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $26.61 | ↓ -21% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $26.61 | ↓ -21% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $26.61 | ↓ -21% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $26.88 | ↓ -20% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $27.41 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $27.41 | ↓ -18% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $27.94 | ↓ -17% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $28.29 | ↓ -16% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $28.47 | ↓ -15% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $28.74 | ↓ -14% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $28.74 | ↓ -14% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $29.00 | ↓ -14% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $30.60 | ↓ -9% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $30.60 | ↓ -9% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $31.93 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $31.93 | ↓ -5% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $31.93 | ↓ -5% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $39.92 | ↑ +19% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $39.92 | ↑ +19% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $48.05 | ↑ +43% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $50.56 | ↑ +50% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $51.09 | ↑ +52% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $52.69 | ↑ +57% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $83.94 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $87.43 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $99.52 | ↑ +196% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $117.08 | ↑ +248% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $160.97 | ↑ +379% |
| Aetna | Commercial|WEA | $196.37 | ↑ +484% |
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Cytopathology cervical/vaginal thin layer auto screen/manual rescreen/review at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Luke's Rehabilitation Medical Center | Spokane | $124.11 | $26.61 – $29.27 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $33.60 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $165.60 | $23.95 – $125.07 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $244.30 | $26.61 – $95.80 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $165.60 | $23.95 – $121.08 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $165.60 | $23.95 – $125.07 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $116.80 | $31.00 – $31.00 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $69.16 | $26.61 – $165.78 |