Echo guide for artery repair at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$480.81
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.
$1,668.07
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.
$352.95 with SoundPath vs $1,552.98 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 | $352.95 | ↓ -27% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $352.95 | ↓ -27% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $356.48 | ↓ -26% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $363.54 | ↓ -24% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $363.54 | ↓ -24% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $363.54 | ↓ -24% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $377.66 | ↓ -21% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $381.19 | ↓ -21% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $381.19 | ↓ -21% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $384.72 | ↓ -20% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $405.89 | ↓ -16% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $405.89 | ↓ -16% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $509.65 | ↑ +6% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $552.50 | ↑ +15% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $670.60 | ↑ +39% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $677.66 | ↑ +41% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $698.84 | ↑ +45% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $726.60 | ↑ +51% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $762.02 | ↑ +58% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $775.73 | ↑ +61% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $838.28 | ↑ +74% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $889.49 | ↑ +85% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,050.37 | ↑ +118% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,113.73 | ↑ +132% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,172.37 | ↑ +144% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,172.37 | ↑ +144% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,201.02 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,251.06 | ↑ +160% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,320.03 | ↑ +175% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,552.98 | ↑ +223% |
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Echo guide for artery repair at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $783.36 | $250.04 – $1,189.57 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $582.40 | $240.61 – $911.16 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $783.36 | $250.04 – $1,151.61 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $783.36 | $250.74 – $1,189.57 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,070.40 | $312.00 – $312.00 |
| Kadlec Regional Medical Center | Richland | $952.70 | $240.61 – $989.62 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $1,429.40 | $240.61 – $1,075.01 |
| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett - Colby Campus | Everett | $387.40 | $245.89 – $1,140.16 |