Ghs removal pharyngeal foreign body at St. Clare Hospital
11315 Bridgeport Way SW, Lakewood, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1689672693
$149.14
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.
$517.39
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.
$157.92 with First Choice vs $4,556.00 with Cigna — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $157.92 | ↑ +6% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $372.53 | ↑ +150% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $388.05 | ↑ +160% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $452.29 | ↑ +203% |
| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $452.29 | ↑ +203% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $456.81 | ↑ +206% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +212% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +212% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $465.86 | ↑ +212% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $483.95 | ↑ +224% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $488.47 | ↑ +228% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $488.47 | ↑ +228% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $493.00 | ↑ +231% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $520.13 | ↑ +249% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $520.13 | ↑ +249% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $859.35 | ↑ +476% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $868.40 | ↑ +482% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $895.53 | ↑ +500% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $922.34 | ↑ +518% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $984.72 | ↑ +560% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,027.33 | ↑ +589% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,129.13 | ↑ +657% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,130.14 | ↑ +658% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,333.33 | ↑ +794% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,427.20 | ↑ +857% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $1,502.34 | ↑ +907% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,502.34 | ↑ +907% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $1,691.56 | ↑ +1034% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,990.08 | ↑ +1234% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $4,556.00 | ↑ +2955% |
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Ghs removal pharyngeal foreign body at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Providence St Joseph Hospital | Chewelah | $270.90 | not published |
| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $949.92 | $517.30 – $1,708.87 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $347.20 | $497.80 – $1,308.92 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $949.92 | $517.30 – $1,654.33 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $949.92 | $518.75 – $1,708.87 |
| Providence Centralia Hospital | Centralia | $1,009.32 | $517.30 – $2,265.17 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $270.90 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $884.80 | $353.06 – $920.94 |